Patents by Inventor Irene Kunze

Irene Kunze 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: 11813302
    Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic Brassica events LBFLFK and LBFDAU and progeny thereof, and cells, seeds, plants comprising DNA diagnostic for these events. The invention also provides artificial oligonucleotide primers and probes that are diagnostic for the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample, and methods for detecting the presence of the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample. The invention further provides oil and commodity products derived from the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Dietrich Rein, Jörg Bauer, Carl Andre
  • Publication number: 20230293615
    Abstract: T-DNA for expression of a target gene in a plant, wherein the T-DNA comprises a left and a right border element and at least one expression cassette comprising a promoter, operatively linked thereto a target gene, and downstream thereof a terminator, wherein the length of the T-DNA, measured from left to right border element and comprising the target gene, has a length of at least 30000 bp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Heiko Haertel, Steven Craig Bremmer, Steven D. Breazeale, Joerg Bauer, Patricia Vrinten, Sten Stymne, Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz, John A. McElver, Dietrich Rein, Carl Andre
  • Patent number: 11613761
    Abstract: T-DNA for expression of a target gene in a plant, wherein the T-DNA comprises a left and a right border element and at least one expression cassette comprising a promoter, operatively linked thereto a target gene, and downstream thereof a terminator, wherein the length of the T-DNA, measured from left to right border element and comprising the target gene, has a length of at least 30000 bp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: Bioriginal Food & Science Corporation, BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Heiko Haertel, Steven Craig Bremmer, Steven D. Breazeale, Joerg Bauer, Patricia Vrinten, Sten Stymne, Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz, John A. McElver, Dietrich Rein, Carl Andre
  • Publication number: 20210308202
    Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic Brassica events LBFLFK and LBFDAU and progeny thereof, and cells, seeds, plants comprising DNA diagnostic for these events. The invention also provides artificial oligonucleotide primers and probes that are diagnostic for the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample, and methods for detecting the presence of the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample. The invention further provides oil and commodity products derived from the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Dietrich Rein, Jörg Bauer, Carl Andre
  • Patent number: 11033593
    Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic Brassica events LBFLFK and LBFDAU and progeny thereof, and cells, seeds, plants comprising DNA diagnostic for these events. The invention also provides artificial oligonucleotide primers and probes that are diagnostic for the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample, and methods for detecting the presence of the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample. The invention further provides oil and commodity products derived from the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Dietrich Rein, Joerg Bauer, Carl Andre
  • Publication number: 20180298400
    Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic Brassica events LBFLFK and LBFDAU and progeny thereof, and cells, seeds, plants comprising DNA diagnostic for these events. The invention also provides artificial oligonucleotide primers and probes that are diagnostic for the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample, and methods for detecting the presence of the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample. The invention further provides oil and commodity products derived from the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Toralf SENGER, Laurent MARTY, Irene KUNZE, Dietrich REIN, Joerg BAUER, Carl ANDRE
  • Patent number: 8604278
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with the expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for the production of food and animal feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
  • Publication number: 20110289622
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with the expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for the production of food and animal feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
  • Patent number: 8022272
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors, which contain vegetable constitutive promoters and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences preferably selection markers in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention also relates to transgenic plants that have been transformed using these expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation products derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for producing food and animal feed agents, seeds, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
  • Patent number: 7557203
    Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic expression cassettes for expressing two nucleic acid sequences in a plant cell comprising at least one regulatory sequence selected from the group consisting of a) the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, b) functional equivalents of the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 which have an identity of at least 80% to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 and which have substantially the same promoter activity as the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, c) functional equivalents of the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 which comprise at least 25 consecutive nucleotides of the sequences shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 and which have substantially the same promoter activity as the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, and d) functionally equivalent fragments of sequences a) or b) or c), which have at least 25 consecutive nucleotides of said sequences a) or b) or c) and have substantially the same promoter activity as the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, where said regulatory
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze
  • Publication number: 20080060096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing ketocarotenoids by cultivating genetically modified, non-human organisms which have, by comparison with the wild type, a modified ketolase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, to the use thereof as human and animal foods and for preparing ketocarotenoid extracts, and to novel ketolases and nucleic acids encoding these ketolases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2004
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Matt Sauer, Christel Renate Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Martin Klebsattel, Thomas Luck, Dirk Voeste, Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer, Hendrik Tschoep
  • Patent number: 7332649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals, in particular vitamin E, vitamin K and/or ubiquinone by culturing organisms, in particular plants, whose shikimate pathway is genetically modified over that of the wild type, and to the transgenic organisms themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ralf Badur, Michael Geiger, Irene Kunze, Susanne Sommer
  • Patent number: 7303909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a binary vector which is distinguished by the combination of a variety of elements, demonstrates particularly high compatibility from the cloning aspect and which, besides the T-DNA flanked by the right and left border, contains an additional sequence which makes possible highly efficient and correct transfer of the T-DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze
  • Publication number: 20070094749
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of ketocarotenoids by culturing genetically modified plants which show a ketolase activity in fruits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel
  • Publication number: 20060253927
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing zeaxanthin and/or biosynthetic intermediates and/or secondary products thereof by culturing genetically modified plants which, compared to the wild type, have a reduced ?-cyclase activity caused by double-stranded ?-cyclase ribonucleic acid sequences, to the genetically modified plants and to the use thereof as foodstuffs and feedstuffs and for producing carotenoid extracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel
  • Publication number: 20060194274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of ketocarotenoids by culturing genetically modified organisms which in comparison with the wild-type have a modified ketolase activity and a modified ?-cyclase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, and to their use as foodstuffs and feedstuffs for the production of ketocarotenoid extracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2004
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Flachmann, Christel Schopfer, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel, Thomas Luck, Dirk Voeste, Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20060150282
    Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic expression cassettes for expressing two nucleic acid sequences in a plant cell comprising at least one regulatory sequence selected from the group consisting of a) the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, b) functional equivalents of the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 which have an identity of at least 80% to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 and which have substantially the same promoter activity as the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, c) functional equivalents of the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 which comprise at least 25 consecutive nucleotides of the sequences shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 and which have substantially the same promoter activity as the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, and d) functionally equivalent fragments of sequences a) or b) or c), which have at least 25 consecutive nucleotides of said sequences a) or b) or c) and have substantially the same promoter activity as the promoter shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, where said regulatory el
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze
  • Publication number: 20060057687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals, in particular vitamin E, vitamin K and/or ubiquinone by culturing organisms, in particular plants, whose shikimate pathway is genetically modified over that of the wild type, and to the transgenic organisms themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Ralf Badur, Michael Geiger, Irene Kunze, Susanne Sommer
  • Publication number: 20060031963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of ketocarotenoids by culturing plants which show a modified ketolase activity in petals in comparison with the wild type, to the genetically modified plants, to their use as foodstuffs and feedstuffs, and for the production of ketocarotenoid extracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel
  • Publication number: 20050216967
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of said expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with said expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived therefrom and also to the use of same for the production of food- and feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rudiger Hell, Ricarda Jost