Patents by Inventor Geetha Vasanthakumar

Geetha Vasanthakumar 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).

  • Methods of producing and using cold temperature tolerant plants, seeds, and crops
    Publication number: 20080092255
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides transgenic seeds and plants with enhanced cold tolerance and cold vigor. The disclosure also provides methods of producing these transgenic plants and seeds. The present disclosure further provides methods of producing crops that can be grown under sub-optimum conditions and methods of increasing the yield of crop plants by extending growing season of a plant by earlier planting of transgenic seeds of the invention under sub-optimum growth conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Edgerton, Banu Gopalan, Vincent Jung, Mahesh Kulkarni, Linda Madson, Manchikanti Padmavathi, Padmini Sudarshana, Geetha Vasanthakumar, John Xu, Yihou Zhou, Li Zhou, Kimberly Zobrist Duff
  • Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase
    Patent number: 6248577
    Abstract: The present invention describes the previously unreported cloning and isolation of HGPRT cDNA containing an open reading frame corresponding to the HGPRT of Plasmodium falciparum, present the complete nucleotide sequence of the Plasmodium falciparum HGPRT Dral/Pstl cDNA fragment, and the expression of this gene product in an E. coli strain deficient in purine salvage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Southern Research Institute
    Inventors: Geetha Vasanthakumar, John A. Montgomery