Patents by Inventor Kathleen Y. Lee

Kathleen Y. Lee 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).

  • Asymmetric PCR with nuclease-free polymerase or nuclease-resistant molecular beacons
    Publication number: 20030134307
    Abstract: This invention provides methods for performing combined asymmetric amplification (e.g., asymmetric PCR amplification) and detection of nucleic acid targets using molecular beacons to detect the products. Methods using a polymerase having reduced or eliminated 5′ to 3′ nuclease activity are provided, as are methods using nuclease-resistant molecular beacons. Asymmetric amplifications using nuclease-free polymerase or nuclease-resistant molecular beacons provide dramatic improvements in signal intensity detected as a result of molecular beacon binding to a target nucleic acid, e.g., during asymmetric PCR. Attendant compositions, systems, devices and kits are also features of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Gorilla Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth B. Beckman, Robert D. Larsen, Kathleen Y. Lee
  • Nucleic acids encoding plant group 2 proteins and uses thereof
    Patent number: 6291744
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the production of transgenic plants. In particular, the invention relates to nucleic acids that hybridizes under stringent conditions to a nucleic acid encoding a plant Gp2 protein that has the amino acid sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID NO:2. The invention also relates to the above-described nucleic acid operably linked to a heterologous or Gp2 plant promoter. In addition, the invention relates to transgenic plants containing the above-described nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: DNA Plant Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine S. Baden, Pamela Dunsmuir, Kathleen Y. Lee
  • Plant Group 2 promoters and uses thereof
    Patent number: 5981727
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the production of transgenic plants. In particular, the invention relates to Group 2 (Gp2) plant promoter sequences and to expression cassettes containing Gp2 plant promoter sequences. The invention also relates to vectors and transgenic plants containing Gp2 plant promoter sequences that are operably linked to heterologous DNA sequences. In addition, the invention relates to methods of producing transgenic plants by using vectors containing Gp2 promoter sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: DNA Plant Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine S. Baden, Pamela Dunsmuir, Kathleen Y. Lee
  • Delayed ripening tomato plants with T-DNA bearing a truncated ACC2 synthase gene
    Patent number: 5952546
    Abstract: The present invention provides tomato plants exhibiting a delayed ripening phenotype. The plants of the invention comprise a T-DNA insert comprising a first sequence of from about nucleotide 149 to about nucleotide 1237 of a tomato Acc synthase gene and two inverted repeats of the first sequence. Integration of the T-DNA insert into the plant genome inhibits ethylene biosynthesis in the fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: DNA Plant Technology Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Bedbrook, Pamela Dunsmuir, William J. Howie, Lawrence K. Joe, Kathleen Y. Lee
  • Plant group 2 promoters and uses thereof
    Patent number: 5608144
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the production of transgenic plants. In particular, the invention relates to Group 2 (Gp2) plant promoter sequences and to expression cassettes containing Gp2 plant promoter sequences. The invention also relates to vectors and transgenic plants containing Gp2 plant promoter sequences that are operably linked to heterologous DNA sequences. In addition, the invention relates to methods of producing transgenic plants by using vectors containing Gp2 promoter sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: DNA Plant Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Catherine S. Baden, Pamela Dunsmuir, Kathleen Y. Lee