Patents by Inventor Johannes M. Hofstede

Johannes M. Hofstede 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).

  • Publication number: 20110185451
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant of the Capsicum genus, which plant exhibits resistance to Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) pathotype 1.2.3 due to the presence of the L4 resistance allele in the genome of said plant, wherein the genetic information responsible for the SNFD phenotype is absent from or is repressed in the genome of said plant at least to such an extent that the SNFD phenotype is not expressed. The present invention further relates to a method of producing a plant of the Capsicum genus that exhibits resistance to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.3, comprising the steps of a) providing a recipient plant of the Capsicum genus that is susceptible to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: Monsanto Invest N.V.
    Inventors: Anton Pieter Allersma, Rene Johannes M. Hofstede, Dirk Vreugdenhil
  • Patent number: 7943831
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant of the Capsicum genus, which plant exhibits resistance to Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) pathotype 1.2.3 due to the presence of the L4 resistance allele in the genome of said plant, wherein the genetic information responsible for the SNFD phenotype is absent from or is repressed in the genome of said plant at least to such an extent that the SNFD phenotype is not expressed. The present invention further relates to a method of producing a plant of the Capsicum genus that exhibits resistance to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.3, comprising the steps of a) providing a recipient plant of the Capsicum genus that is susceptible to PMMoV pathotype 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Monsanto Invest B.V.
    Inventors: Anton Pieter Allersma, René Johannes M. Hofstede, Dirk Vreugdenhil
  • Patent number: 4596128
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for bending elongate workpieces, particularly pipes, by applying a bending moment to the workpiece while inductively heating a cross-sectional zone of the workpiece to provide a nonuniform temperature distribution along the circumference of this cross-sectional zone by means of an induction loop which surrounds the workpiece and by cooling the workpiece in at least one adjacent zone. According to the method of the invention, within a partial region of the circumference of the workpiece to be bent, which partial region is to be set at a relatively low temperature, the electrical current of the induction loop is branched off into a plurality of partial currents of which at least one is inductively directed primarily onto the cross-sectional zone to be heated and at least one other partial current is inductively directed primarily onto an adjacent zone of the workpiece, and the inductive heating of the respective adjacent zone is partially or completely cancelled out by cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Assignee: Cojafex BV
    Inventors: Jelke Ringersma, Johannes M. Hofstede
  • Patent number: 4591436
    Abstract: Apparatus for the separation of suspended solids from a fluid under pressure, by means of a granulate-bed, consisting of granulates of at least two sizes of grain of a material which does not swell during the filtration operation. During the filtration operation, the fluid flows through the granular medium filterbed in one direction and filtrate used for backwashing the separated solids flows in the opposite direction. The granulate-bed is held firmly together during the filtration operation and during the purification by a compression source, that generates such a compression on the granulate-bed, that it keeps the relative position of the granulate-particles with respect to each other in the granulate-bed, both under the action of flow during filtration process as well as during the purification process, in essence permanently in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Cojafex B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes M. Hofstede