Patents by Inventor James D. Weiss

James D. Weiss 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).

  • Nucleic acid sequences to proteins involved in tocopherol synthesis
    Patent number: 7265207
    Abstract: Nucleic acid sequences and methods are provided for producing plants and seeds having altered tocopherol content and compositions. The methods find particular use in increasing the tocopherol levels in plants, and in providing desirable tocopherol compositions in a host plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Calgene LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. Lassner, Beth Savidge, Timothy A. Mitsky, James D. Weiss, Martha Ann Post-Beittenmiller
  • Nucleic acid sequences to proteins involved in tocopherol synthesis
    Publication number: 20040018602
    Abstract: Nucleic acid sequences and methods are provided for producing plants and seeds having altered tocopherol content and compositions. The methods find particular use in increasing the tocopherol levels in plants, and in providing desirable tocopherol compositions in a host plant cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Michael W. Lassner, Beth Savidge, Timothy A. Mitsky, James D. Weiss, Martha Ann Post-Beittenmiller
  • Nucleic acid sequences to proteins involved in tocopherol synthesis
    Publication number: 20030170833
    Abstract: Nucleic acid sequences and methods are provided for producing plants and seeds having altered tocopherol content and compositions. The methods find particular use in increasing the tocopherol levels in plants, and in providing desirable tocopherol compositions in a host plant cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Michael W. Lassner, Beth Savidge, Timothy Mitsky, James D. Weiss, Martha Ann Post-Beittenmiller
  • Virus resistant plants and method therefore
    Patent number: 5304730
    Abstract: A DNA sequence encoding a potato leafroll virus coat protein having at least one internal translation initiation codon in a different reading frame than the native PLRV coat protein DNA sequence altered to a non-initiator codon is provided. Two translation initiation sites at the start of a 17kd open reading frame in a different reading frame than the native PLRV coat protein DNA sequence are preferably altered A stronger stop codon is also provided in the modified PLRV DNA sequence. The modified DNA sequence having the internal translation initiation codons at the start of the 17kd open reading frame altered to non-initiator codons can be used in a gene to transform plants of the Solanaceae family to obtain transgenic plants resistant to PLRV. A synthetic modified potato leafroll virus DNA sequence is also provided which has the changes in the translation initiation sites and is further made to be more "plant-like".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventors: Edgar C. Lawson, James D. Weiss, Cynthia L. Hemenway, Nilgun E. Tumer