Patents by Inventor James A. Robertson
James A. Robertson 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).
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Publication number: 20240150780Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 destaurases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Anne Maree Mackenzie, Qing Liu, Pushkar Shrestha, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Maged Peter Mansour, Stanley Suresh Robert, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Xue-Rong Zhou, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig Christopher Wood
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Publication number: 20240150782Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 desaturases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Anne Maree Mackenzie, Qing Liu, Pushkar Shrestha, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Maged Peter Mansour, Stanley Suresh Robert, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Xue-Rong Zhou, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig Christopher Wood
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Publication number: 20240150779Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 destaurases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Anne Maree Mackenzie, Qing Liu, Pushkar Shrestha, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Maged Peter Mansour, Stanley Suresh Robert, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Xue-Rong Zhou, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig Christopher Wood
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Publication number: 20240150781Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 destaurases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Anne Maree Mackenzie, Qing Liu, Pushkar Shrestha, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Maged Peter Mansour, Stanley Suresh Robert, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Xue-Rong Zhou, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig Christopher Wood
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Patent number: 11976287Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of recombinant fatty acid synthesis, particularly in transgenic plants. The application describes genes involved in fatty acid synthesis and provides methods and vectors for the manipulation of fatty acid composition of plant oils. In particular, the invention provides constructs for achieving the integration of multiple heterologous genes involved in fatty acid synthesis into the plant genome, such that the resulting plants produce altered levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Also described are methods for enhancing the expression of fatty acid biosynthesis enzymes by co-expressing a silencing suppressor within the plant storage organ.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Anne Maree Mackenzie, Qing Liu, Pushkar Shrestha, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Maged Peter Mansour, Stanley Suresh Robert, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Xue-Rong Zhou, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig Christopher Wood
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Patent number: 11963105Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. Performance of such devices is improved with reduced time to first fix of location operations in conjunction with low-power operations. In one embodiment, low-power circuitry manages high-speed circuitry and location circuitry to provide location assistance data from the high-speed circuitry to the low-power circuitry automatically on initiation of location fix operations as the high-speed circuitry and location circuitry are booted from low-power states. In some embodiments, the high-speed circuitry is returned to a low-power state prior to completion of a location fix and after capture of content associated with initiation of the location fix. In some embodiments, high-speed circuitry is booted after completion of a location fix to update location data associated with content.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Gerald Nilles, Jason Heger, Praveen Babu Vadivelu
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Publication number: 20240108466Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member having an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the fixation frame and extending radially outward therefrom. The extension member includes a plurality of discrete fabric segments having a first end at the anchoring member and a second end spaced apart from the anchoring member, wherein each discrete fabric segment includes lateral edges extending from the first end to the second end of the discrete fabric segment. The discrete fabric segments are configured to move circumferentially relative to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Alexander Hill, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby, James R. Keogh
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Publication number: 20240099556Abstract: A computer-implemented method of object enhancement in endoscopy images includes capturing an image of an object within a surgical operative site via an imaging device, determining a size of the object based on the captured image of the object, displaying the captured image of the object, and displaying on the displayed captured image of the object a representation of the determined size of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kenlyn S. Bonn, Dustin S. Slater, Justin Rogers, James R. Fagan, Anjali Dhiman, John W. Linebarger, Rayne Robertson, Keith W. Malang, Matthew Savary, Joshua R. Snow, Tyler J. Bagrosky, Luciano Mazzaro, Jason M. Mucilli, Dylan R. Kingsley, Christopher S. Rainieri, Amanda H. Lennartz, Alexandre Linhares Vieira, Kent L. Howe
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Publication number: 20240084214Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, NUSEED NUTRITIONAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20240089342Abstract: Methods and systems for a device connectivity services system. A method for using the device connectivity services includes receiving a request to connect with a device to perform one or more tasks at the device, processing the request with respect to connectivity factors related to the request and the device, scheduling the request based on the connectivity factors, instantiating a controller to execute the one or more tasks at the device, sending commands to the device over a connection to perform the one or more tasks, and receiving responses from the device over the connection after completing the one or more tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: James Ryan, John B. McManus, Michael McClure, Alan Robertson, Aklilu Gebreyesus
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Patent number: 11928772Abstract: In a ray tracer, to prevent any long-running query from hanging the graphics processing unit, a traversal coprocessor provides a preemption mechanism that will allow rays to stop processing or time out early. The example non-limiting implementations described herein provide such a preemption mechanism, including a forward progress guarantee, and additional programmable timeout options that can be time or cycle based. Those programmable options provide a means for quality of service timing guarantees for applications such as virtual reality (VR) that have strict timing requirements.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Greg Muthler, Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Peter Nelson, James Robertson, John Burgess
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Patent number: 11917960Abstract: The invention provides an improved method for transformation of sorghum and the production of genetically modified sorghum. In particular, methods and means are described for the production of high quality, transformable sorghum plant cells which are maintained in culture for longer duration without losing their regenerative potential and their use for genetic transformation. The method also describes the use of improved media for efficient plant regeneration from transformed plant cells, thereby providing significant improvement in the stable transformation frequency of sorghum.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Srinivas Belide, James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh
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Patent number: 11918300Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system for needle insertion guidance uses a curved array transducer to scan an image field with unsteered beams as a needle is inserted into the image field. Due to differences in the angle of incidence between the radially directed beams and the needle, echoes will return most strongly from only a section of the needle. This section is identified in an image, and the angle of incidence producing the strongest returns is identified. Beams with this optimal angle of incidence are then steered in parallel from the curved array transducer to produce the best needle image. The steep steering angles of some of the steered beams can give rise to side lobe clutter artifacts, which can be identified and removed from the image data using dual apodization processing of the image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Shannon Renee Fox, Changhong Hu, Kyong Chang, James Robertson Jago, Thanasis Loupas
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Patent number: 11903761Abstract: The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods that may be used to image, for example, breast tissue. An ultrasound imaging system according to one embodiment may include a probe, a sensor attached to the probe and operatively associated with a position tracking system, a processor configured to receive probe position data from the position tracking system. The user interface may be configured to provide instructions for placement of the probe at a plurality of anatomical landmarks of a selected breast of the subject and receive user input to record the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks. The processor may be configured to determine a scan area based on the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks and generate a scan pattern for the selected breast. The processor may be further configured to monitor movement of the probe.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: James Robertson Jago, Julia Dmitrieva, Gary Cheng-How Ng, Thomas Shu Yin Tang
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Publication number: 20240036336Abstract: A magnification application for use with augmented reality (AR) eyewear devices. The magnification application enables a user of an eyewear device to activate a magnification overlay on a display whenever a camera on the eyewear device detects that the field of view includes a registered virtual marker. The magnified overlay includes one or more frames of the captured video data, presented according to a predefined and configurable magnification power. A pointer including a vector and a visual tether guides the user toward the virtual marker. When the eyewear device location is near a perimeter associated with the virtual marker, the magnified overlay appears in a predefined and configurable frame on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Alexander Sourov, John James Robertson
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Patent number: 11859193Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to vegetative plant parts, such as from a Sorghum sp. and/or a Zea mays plant, which comprise a total fatty acid (TFA) content which comprises fatty acids esterified in the form of triacylglycerols (TAG) and fatty acids in the form of lipids other than TAG, wherein the vegetative plant parts comprise greatly increased levels of TFA, for example a TFA content of about 5% (w/w dry weight). The present invention also relates to the use of the vegetative plant parts as a feedstuff, and/or to produce a feedstuff, for animal consumption.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NUSEED GLOBAL INNOVATION LTD.Inventors: XueRong Zhou, Qing Liu, Anna El Tahchy, Srinivas Belide, Madeline Claire Mitchell, Uday Kumar Divi, Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Allan Graham Green
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Publication number: 20230422176Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. Performance of such devices is improved with reduced time to first fix of location operations in conjunction with low-power operations. In one embodiment, low-power circuitry manages high-speed circuitry and location circuitry to provide location assistance data from the high-speed circuitry to the low-power circuitry automatically on initiation of location fix operations as the high-speed circuitry and location circuitry are booted from low-power states. In some embodiments, the high-speed circuitry is returned to a low-power state prior to completion of a location fix and after capture of content associated with initiation of the location fix. In some embodiments, high-speed circuitry is booted after completion of a location fix to update location data associated with content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Gerald Nilles, Jason Heger, Praveen Babu Vadivelu
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Publication number: 20230416186Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid wherein the docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid may be preferentially esterified at the sn-2 position of triacylglycerol, and processes for producing and using the lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty LtdInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine, Xue-Rong Zhou
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Publication number: 20230399653Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for extracting lipid from vegetative plant parts such as leaves, stems, roots and tubers, and for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from the lipids. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Ana El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Qing Liu
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Patent number: 11834621Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: NUSEED GLOBAL INNOVATION LTD.Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter