Patents by Inventor Frank P. Wolter

Frank P. Wolter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Processive sugar transferase
    Patent number: 6743606
    Abstract: The invention relates to a protein which presents identical or different catalytically active domains of glycosyltransferases and has a processive action. In particular, the same protein is successively active in at least two successive process steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignees: Gesellschaft Für Erwerb und Verwertung von Schutzrechten-GVS mbH, Forschungszentrum Borstel
    Inventors: Frank P. Wolter, Petra Jorasch, Ernst Heinz, Ulrich Zähringer
  • Elongase promoters for tissue-specific expression of transgenes in plants
    Publication number: 20030159173
    Abstract: The invention relates to chimerical genes that have (i) a DNA sequence coding for a desired product, and (ii) an elongase promoter. The DNA sequence is functionally linked with the promoter to allow expression of the product under the control of the promoter. The invention further relates to vectors, plant cells, plants and plant parts and microorganisms that contain the chimerical gene and to methods for producing such vectors, plant cells, plants and plant parts and microorganisms. The invention also relates to elongase-encoding sequences from Brassica napus and to transgenic plants and microorganisms expressing said sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Frank P. Wolter, Jixiang Han, Margrit Frentzen
  • Sterol glycosyl transferases
    Patent number: 6498239
    Abstract: The invention relates to DNA sequences coding for sterol glucosyl transferases as well as the use thereof to modify the content and/or the structure of sterol glycosides and/or their synthetic secondary products in transgenic organism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Gesellschaft fur Erwerb und Verwertung von Schutzrechten—GVS mbH
    Inventors: Martina Baltrusch, Ernst Heinz, Dirk Warnecke, Frank P. Wolter