Patents by Inventor German Spangenberg

German Spangenberg 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).

  • Publication number: 20240026319
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant-produced angiogenins, to related plant cells, plant calli, plants, seeds and other plant parts and products derived therefrom and to uses of plant-produced angiogenins. The present invention also relates to expression of angiogenin genes in plants and to related nucleic acids, constructs and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Jianghui Wang, Benjamin Graeme Cocks, Matthew Knight, Matthew McDonagh
  • Publication number: 20230354760
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns methods for estimating the breeding value of plants for the purpose of producing doubled haploid, for example, to identify selection candidates having high breeding values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC
    Inventors: HANS D. DAETWYLER, BENJAMIN J. HAYES, KELLY R. ROBBINS, MATTHEW J. HAYDEN, GERMAN SPANGENBERG
  • Patent number: 11744199
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns methods for estimating the breeding value of plants for the purpose of producing doubled haploid, for example, to identify selection candidates having high breeding values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hans Dieter Daetwyler, Benjamin John Hayes, Kelly Robbins, Matthew James Hayden, German Spangenberg
  • Patent number: 11692183
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant-produced angiogenins, to related plant cells, plant calli, plants, seeds and other plant parts and products derived therefrom and to uses of plant-produced angiogenins. The present invention also relates to expression of angiogenin genes in plants and to related nucleic acids, constructs and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Jianghui Wang, Benjamin Graeme Cocks, Matthew Knight, Matthew McDonagh
  • Patent number: 11692185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant-produced angiogenins, to related plant cells, plant calli, plants, seeds and other plant parts and products derived therefrom and to uses of plant-produced angiogenins. The present invention also relates to expression of angiogenin genes in plants and to related nucleic acids, constructs and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Jianghui Wang, Benjamin Graeme Cocks, Matthew Knight, Matthew McDonagh
  • Patent number: 11198883
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for parallel or sequential transgene stacking in plants to produce plants with selected phenotypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Michael Ainley, Dmitry Y. Guschin, Matthew Hayden, Daniel Isenegger, John Mason, Jeffrey C. Miller, Joseph F. Petolino, Yidong Ran, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb
  • Patent number: 10961540
    Abstract: A method of gene editing or gene stacking within a FAD3 loci by cleaving, in a site directed manner, a location in a FAD3 gene in a cell, to generate a break in the FAD3 gene and then ligating into the break a nucleic acid molecule associated with one or more traits of interest is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel Cogan, John Forster, Matthew Hayden, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb, Manju Gupta, W. Michael Ainley, Matthew J. Henry, Jeffrey C. Miller, Dmitry Y. Guschin
  • Publication number: 20210032611
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant-produced angiogenins, to related plant cells, plant calli, plants, seeds and other plant parts and products derived therefrom and to uses of plant-produced angiogenins. The present invention also relates to expression of angiogenin genes in plants and to related nucleic acids, constructs and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Jianghui Wang, Benjamin Graeme Cocks, Matthew Knight, Matthew McDonagh
  • Patent number: 10881060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying and/or characterising an endophyte strain, said method including providing a plurality of samples of endophytes, subjecting said endophytes to genetic analysis; subjecting said endophytes to metabolic analysis and selecting endophytes having a desired genetic and metabolic profile. The present invention also relates to novel endophytes having a desired toxin profile wherein the endophyte produces significantly less toxic alkaloids compared with a control endophyte such as standard toxic (ST) endophyte; and/or significantly more alkaloids conferring beneficial properties compared with a control endophyte such as ST endophyte. The present invention also relates to endophyte variants having a desired genetic and metabolic profile, wherein said endophyte variants possess genetic and/or metabolic characteristics that result in a beneficial phenotype in a plant harbouring or otherwise associated with the endophyte variant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge, John White Forster, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Emma Jane Isobel Ludlow, Jatinder Kaur, Simone Jane Rochfort, Maia Andrea Rabinovich, Piyumi Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 10640779
    Abstract: An Engineered Transgene Integration Platform (ETIP) is described that can be inserted randomly or at targeted locations in plant genomes to facilitate rapid selection and detection of a GOI that is perfectly targeted (both the 5? and 3? ends) at the ETIP genomic location. One element in the subject disclosure is the introduction of specific double stranded breaks within the ETIP. In some embodiments, an ETIP is described using zinc finger nuclease binding sites, but may utilize other targeting technologies such as meganucleases, CRISPRs, TALs, or leucine zippers. Also described are compositions of, and methods for producing, transgenic plants wherein the donor or payload DNA expresses one or more products of an exogenous nucleic acid sequence (e.g. protein or RNA) that has been stably-integrated into an ETIP in a plant cell. In embodiments, the ETIP facilitates testing of gene candidates and plant expression vectors from ideation through Development phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Noel Cogan, John Forster, Matthew Hayden, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb, Manju Gupta, W. Mike Ainley, Matthew J. Henry, John Mason, Sandeep Kumar, Stephen Novak
  • Publication number: 20200087671
    Abstract: A method of gene editing or gene stacking within a FAD3 loci by cleaving, in a site directed manner, a location in a FAD3 gene in a cell, to generate a break in the FAD3 gene and then ligating into the break a nucleic acid molecule associated with one or more traits of interest is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Noel Cogan, John Forster, Matthew Hayden, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb, Manju Gupta, W. Michael Ainley, Matthew J. Henry, Jeffrey C. Miller, Dmitry Y. Guschin
  • Publication number: 20200071712
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for parallel or sequential transgene stacking in plants to produce plants with selected phenotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: W. Michael Ainley, Dmitry Y. Guschin, Matthew Hayden, Daniel Isenegger, John Mason, Jeffrey C. Miller, Joseph F. Petolino, Yidong Ran, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb
  • Patent number: 10577616
    Abstract: A method of gene editing or gene stacking within a FAD2 loci by cleaving, in a site directed manner, a location in a FAD2 gene in a cell, to generate a break in the FAD2 gene and then ligating into the break a nucleic acid molecule associated with one or more traits of interest is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel Cogan, John Forster, Matthew Hayden, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb, Manju Gupta, W. Michael Ainley, Matthew J. Henry, Jeffrey C. Miller, Dmitry Y. Guschin
  • Patent number: 10526610
    Abstract: A method of gene editing or gene stacking within a FAD3 loci by cleaving, in a site directed manner, a location in a FAD3 gene in a cell, to generate a break in the FAD3 gene and then ligating into the break a nucleic acid molecule associated with one or more traits of interest is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel Cogan, John Forster, Matthew Hayden, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb, Manju Gupta, W. Michael Ainley, Matthew J. Henry, Jeffrey C. Miller, Dmitry Y. Guschin
  • Patent number: 10501748
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for parallel or sequential transgene stacking in plants to produce plants with selected phenotypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Michael Ainley, Dmitry Y. Guschin, Matthew Hayden, Daniel Isenegger, John Mason, Jeffrey C. Miller, Joseph F. Petolino, Yidong Ran, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb
  • Publication number: 20190359960
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant-produced angiogenins, to related plant cells, plant calli, plants, seeds and other plant parts and products derived therefrom and to uses of plant-produced angiogenins. The present invention also relates to expression of angiogenin genes in plants and to related nucleic acids, constructs and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Jianghui Wang, Benjamin Graeme Cocks, Matthew Knight, Matthew McDonagh
  • Patent number: 10428343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the modification of lignin biosynthesis in plants, to enzymes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway and nucleic acids encoding such enzymes and, more particularly, to methods of modifying lignin biosynthesis via sense suppression and to related nucleic acids and constructs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: Dairy Australia Limited, Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Angela Jane Lidgett, Robyn Louise Heath, Russell Leigh McInnes, Damian Paul Lynch, Ulrik Peter John, Aidyn Mouradov, Megan Elizabeth Griffith
  • Publication number: 20190021250
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns methods for estimating the breeding value of plants for the purpose of producing doubled haploid, for example, to identify selection candidates having high breeding values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Hans Dieter DAETWYLER, Benjamin John HAYES, Kelly ROBBINS, Matthew James HAYDEN, German SPANGENBERG
  • Patent number: 10184133
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in plants. More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for ice recrystallization inhibition proteins (IRIPs) in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of plant response to freezing and/or low temperature stress. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in Deschampsia and Festuca species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY. LTD.
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Peter John Ulrik, Renata Martina Polotonianka
  • Patent number: 10106805
    Abstract: Genetic constructs capable of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells of a plant include a promoter, or functionally active fragment or variant thereof, operatively linked to a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial FT enzyme, or a functionally active fragment or variant thereof. Such constructs can be used in the modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to methods of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells, for increasing plant biomass and, more particularly, to methods of enhancing biomass yield and/or yield stability, including shoot and/or root growth in a plant, and for enhancing the productivity of biochemical pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge