Patents by Inventor Helmut Maucher

Helmut Maucher 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).

  • Patent number: 7834243
    Abstract: The invention relates to promoter regions, under the control of which transgenes can be expressed in plants in an epidermis-specific and pathogen-inducible manner. The invention also relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules, including the promoters, to transgenic plants and plant cells, transformed with said the nucleic acid molecules and to methods for producing the same. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules, including a promoter according to the invention, nucleic acid sequences or transgenes, which can convey resistance to pathogens, plants and cell plants, transformed with the nucleic acid molecules and methods for producing the same. The invention also relates to the use of the promoter region according to the invention for analyzing pathogen-induced signal transduction pathways in plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik Und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK)
    Inventors: Patrick Schweizer, Axel Himmelbach, Lothar Altschmied, Helmut Maucher
  • Publication number: 20090100542
    Abstract: The invention relates to promoter regions, under the control of which transgenes can be expressed in plants in an epidermis-specific and pathogen-inducible manner. The invention also relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules, including said promoters, to transgenic plants and plant cells, transformed with said nucleic acid molecules and to methods for producing the same. Said invention also provides nucleic acid molecules, including a promoter according to the invention, nucleic acid sequences or transgenes, which can convey resistance to pathogens, plants and cell plants, transformed with said nucleic acid molecules and methods for producing the same. Said invention also relates to the use of the promoter region according to the invention for analyzing pathogen-induced signal transduction pathways in plant cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Leibniz-Institut Fur Pflanzengenetik Und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK)
    Inventors: Patrick Schweizer, Axel Himmelbach, Lothar Altschmied, Helmut Maucher
  • Publication number: 20060236430
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing male sterile plants by increasing the level of activity of the hydroxyjasmonate sulfotransferase by genetic modification of such plant. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods to restore the fertility of the male sterile phenotype observed in such genetically modified plants by the application of a composition containing at least one jasmonate and an acceptable carrier onto the male sterile flowers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Helmut Maucher, Otto Miersch, Claus Wasternack, Luc Varin
  • Patent number: 5491852
    Abstract: Mattresses and chaise longue cushions made of a core made of flexible polyurethane foam having two groups of rows perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the core of continuous cavities each having an elongated cross section. Each of the elongated cross sections from about the center of the longitudinal axis of the core towards the end thereof is arranged in an oblique orientation relative to the mattress height. Between the two groups of rows of continuous cavities there is present one continuous cavity in a symmetric non-oblique orientation. This arrangement causes the vertebral column to be stretched and, hence, due to movements on the mattress or chaise lounge cushion, results in kind of vertebral column physical exercises producing some stretching effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Koepf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Helmut Maucher