Patents by Inventor James A. Breining, II

James A. Breining, II 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).

  • Corn plant evaluation
    Patent number: 6844194
    Abstract: A corn plant is evaluated by a six-step method. The first step is to select a population of mature corn plants to be evaluated. A limited number of representative plants from the population are then selected. The representative plants are then harvested by cutting them near the ground. The plants are then ground into a homogeneous mixture. A sample of the homogeneous mixture is then analyzed in a near infrared spectrometer. The analysis is then compared with an existing correlation between near infrared analyses and wet-test chemistry tested nutritional compositional characteristics to predict the compositional characteristics of the corn plant population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Doebler's Hybrids, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Camerer, III, Nicholi L. Bajjalieh, Thomas R. Boyd, James A. Breining, II