Patents by Inventor Kenneth A. Feldmann

Kenneth A. Feldmann 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: 20120216317
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants that are characterized by increased size, have an increased number and size of rosette leaves and are late-flowering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth FELDMANN, Roger Pennell, Shing Kwok, David Vandinh Dang, Hongyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8193409
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants that are characterized by increased size, have an increased number and size of rosette leaves and are late-flowering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Feldmann, Roger Pennell, Shing Kwok, Van-Dinh Dang, Hongyu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20120096584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated low light sensitivity and modulated flowering time. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Nickolai ALEXANDROV, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Timothy J. Swaller
  • Publication number: 20120077968
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Patent number: 8110724
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able to confer the trait of altered flowering time in plants. The present invention further relates to using the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides to make transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having flowering times that are altered with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions. Altered flowering time includes both plants having an early flowering time and a late flowering time with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions. Flowering time in plants may be altered either with respect to the normal time at which wild-type plants flower within their normal life cycle or altered temporally such that the entire life cycle of the plant is accelerated or prolonged using the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, INC.
    Inventors: Wuyi Wang, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20120005781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor, growth rate, fruit and seed yield, tillering and/or biomass in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Nickolai ALEXANDROV, Vyacheslav BROVER, Peter MASCIA, Kenneth FELDMANN, Cory CHRISTENSEN, Greg NADZAN
  • Patent number: 8076535
    Abstract: This document provides methods and materials related to plants having modulated (e.g., increased) levels of sugars (e.g., glucose, fructose, and/or sucrose). For example, this document provides plants having increased sugar levels as well as methods and materials for making plants and plant products having increased sugar levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Jankowski, Kenneth Feldmann, Steven Craig Bobzin
  • Patent number: 8049068
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Nazdan, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Cory Christensen
  • Patent number: 8022273
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Nestor Apuya, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20110212249
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, sterility or seedling lethality in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Feldmann, Gregory Nadzan, Peter Mascia
  • Patent number: 7989609
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20110167514
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides. The present invention further relates to the uses of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides. For example, the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides could be used in making enzymes or used to make plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Brover, Timothy J. Swaller, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Maxim Troukhan
  • Patent number: 7935532
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel, polynucleotides isolated from dwarf plants. The dwf4 polynucleotides that encode all, or a portion of, a DWF4 polypeptide, a cytochrome P450 enzyme that mediates multiple steps in synthesis of brassinosteriods. The present invention also relates to isolated polynucleotides that encode regulatory regions of dwf4. Uses of the dwf4 polypeptides and polynucleotides are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Ricardo Azpiroz, Sunghwa Choe, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Patent number: 7932370
    Abstract: The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3? termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20110061124
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC
    Inventors: Gregory Nadzan, Richard Schneeberger, Han Suk Kim, David Van-Dinh Dang, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20110041208
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Roger PENNELL, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Yu-Ping Lu, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Van-Dinh Dang, Zhihong Cook, Jack Okamuro, Nestor Apuya, Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Edward A. Kiegle, Leonard Medrano
  • Patent number: 7884261
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor, growth rate, fruit and seed yield, tillering and/or biomass in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: CERES,Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Peter Mascia, Kenneth Feldmann, Cory Christensen, Greg Nadzan
  • Publication number: 20110028704
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20110016587
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward A. Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane Jofuku, Jonathan Donson
  • Publication number: 20100310753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: NICKOLAI ALEXANDROV, VYACHESLAV BROVER, PETER MASCIA, KENNETH FELDMANN, RICHARD SCHNEEBERGER, GREG NADZAN