Patents by Inventor Larry J. Halverson

Larry J. Halverson 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).

  • Enhancing modulation ability of Rhizobium japonicum by incubation with soybean lectin
    Patent number: 5173424
    Abstract: The nodulation ability and/or competition characteristics of strains of Rhizobium japonicum is enhanced by incubating the strains in a nodulation and/or competitive enhancing effective amount of one or more soybean lectins, or in composition comprising a nodulation and/or competitiveness enhancing effective amount of such lectins such as soybean seed exudate. An inoculum can be prepared containing a carrier, Rhizobium japonicum and lectin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: LiphaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Stacey, Larry J. Halverson, Robert M. Zablotowicz
  • Fungicidal toxin and method and inoculum for controlling root rot and damping off
    Patent number: 5049379
    Abstract: The invention includes a substantially pure preparation of Bacillus cereus antibiotic. The invention further includes a seed inoculum for application to seeds to be protected from damping off and root rot including a non-interfering carrier and an effective quantity of Bacillus cereus antibiotic, and a method for protecting plants in a growing medium from damping off and root rot including the step of placing in the growing medium in the immediate vicinity of the plant to be protected an effective guantity of Bacillus cereus antibiotic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jo Handelsman, Larry J. Halverson, Philip J. Balandyk
  • Method to enhance root nodulation in legumes and inoculum preparation therefor
    Patent number: 4878936
    Abstract: A method for enhancing nodulation in legumes growing in a growing medium. The method includes the step of placing in the growing medium in the immediate vicinity of the roots of the legume the nodulation of which is to be enhanced an effective quantity of an enhancing bacteria selected from the group consisting of ATCC 53522, enhancing mutants of ATCC 53522, a mixture of such mutants, and a mixture of such mutants with ATCC 53522.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jo E. Handelsman, Larry J. Halverson