Patents by Inventor Henning Kirst

Henning Kirst 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).

  • Decreased light-harvesting antenna size in cyanobacteria
    Patent number: 10385310
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for increasing photosynthetic efficiency and biomass production in cyanobacterial cultures by minimizing the phycobilisome light-harvesting antenna size through disruption of the phycocyanin-encoding CPC-operon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Anastasios Melis, Henning Kirst
  • METHOD TO INCREASE CROP PLANT FOLIAGE PRODUCTIVITY
    Publication number: 20190166774
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are disclosed to improve biomass accumulation in Truncated Light-harvesting Antenna (TLA) crop plant canopies as compared to biomass accumulation measured in wild-type counterparts grown under the same high canopy-density, agronomic, and ambient sunlight conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Anastasios Melis, Henning Kirst, Peggy G. Lemaux, Stephane T. Gabilly
  • DECREASED LIGHT-HARVESTING ANTENNA SIZE IN CYANOBACTERIA
    Publication number: 20170088812
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for increasing photosynthetic efficiency and biomass production in cyanobacterial cultures by minimizing the phycobilisome light-harvesting antenna size through disruption of the phycocyanin-encoding CPC-operon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Anastasios Melis, Henning Kirst
  • SUPPRESSION OF TLA2-CpFTSY GENE EXPRESSION FOR IMPROVED SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTIVITY IN ALGAE
    Publication number: 20140295448
    Abstract: The invention provides method and compositions to minimize the chlorophyll antenna size of photosynthesis by decreasing TLA2 gene expression, thereby improving solar conversion efficiencies and photosynthetic productivity in green microalgae, under bright sunlight conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Anastasios Melis, Henning Kirst