Patents by Inventor Luc C J M Suurs

Luc C J M Suurs 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).

  • Transformed plant expressing a mutansucrase and synthesizing a modified starch
    Patent number: 8269064
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, wherein the genetic modification leads to the expression in plastids of such plant cells and plants of an enzyme having the activity of a mutansucrase. Furthermore, the present invention relates to means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. Plant cells and plants of this type synthesise a modified starch. The present invention therefore also relates to the starch synthesised by the plant cells and plants according to the invention as well as to methods for the manufacture of the starch and to the manufacture of starch derivatives of this modified starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Geraldine Kok-Jacon, Jean-Paul Vincken, Luc C J M Suurs, Claus Frohberg, Richard G F Visser
  • Transformed plant expressing a dextransucrase and synthesizing a modified starch
    Patent number: 8053635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, wherein the genetic modification leads to the expression in plastids of such plant cells and plants of an enzyme having the activity of a dextransucrase. Furthermore, the present invention relates to means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. Plant cells and plants of this type synthesis a modified starch. The present invention therefore also relates to the starch synthesized by the plant cells and plants according to the invention as well as to methods for the manufacture of the starch and to the manufacture of starch derivatives of this modified starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Geraldine Kok-Jacon, Jean-Paul Vincken, Luc C J M Suurs, Claus Frohberg, Richard G F Visser