Patents by Inventor Mark Harker

Mark Harker 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).

  • APOCRINE CELL LINE
    Publication number: 20100184213
    Abstract: An apocrine cell line is obtained by the steps of isolating an apocrine cell from primary tissue, culturing the isolated cell in a first culture medium, removing unattached cells from the first culture medium and transferring said unattached cells to a second culture medium comprising an effective concentration of a phorbol ester, and thereby establishing an apocrine cell line exhibiting long-term proliferation capability, which after many cultures is indicative of indefinite proliferation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Jason Shaun Burry, Richard Livesey Evans, Mark Harker, George Terence Evelyn Kealey, Donald Farquhar McDonald
  • Process for modifying plants
    Publication number: 20040172680
    Abstract: The use of a gene expressing a SMT1 to increase the level of sterols or decrease the amount of cholesterol in the seeds of plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Mark Harker, Susan Amanda Hellyer, Niklas Holmberg, Dick Safford
  • Process for modifying plants
    Publication number: 20040019192
    Abstract: The use of a gene expressing a non-feed back inhibited HMG-reductase in combination with a gene expressing sterol methyltransferasel to increase the level of sterols in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Mark Harker, Susan Amanda Hellyer, Niklas Holmberg, Dick Safford
  • Carotenoid-producing bacterial species and process for production of carotenoids using same
    Patent number: 5935808
    Abstract: A novel Paracoccus species type strain DSM 11574 which produces and secretes carotenoids such as .beta.-carotene, echinenone, .beta.-cryptoxanthin, canthaxanthin, adonirubin, cis-adonixanthin, adonixanthin, astaxanthin and zeaxanthin in vesicles; carotenoid containing vesicles; and a process for production of carotenoids comprising (a) culturing a bacterial species in an nutrient medium including sources of carbon, nitrogen and inorganic substances; and (b) recovering an individual carotenoid pigment or a mixture of carotenoid pigments from the cells, vesicles and/or medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Yissum Research and Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventors: Joseph Hirschberg, Mark Harker