Patents by Inventor Michael GODDARD

Michael GODDARD 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).

  • ARTIFICIAL SELECTION METHOD AND REAGENTS
    Publication number: 20190226035
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for estimating the breeding value of individuals in populations such as those having small effective population size (Ne) e.g., to identify selection candidates having high breeding values, wherein the methods comprise inferring one or more genotypes for one or more markers at a locus or QTL to be the same as for an ancestor or founder or a subset of ancestors and/or founders from which a corresponding chromosome segment is derived and estimating the breeding value of the individual based on the inferred genotype(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Limited
    Inventors: Ben HAYES, Michael GODDARD
  • Artificial selection method and reagents
    Patent number: 10179938
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for estimating the breeding value of individuals in populations such as those having small effective population size (Ne) e.g., to identify selection candidates having high breeding values, wherein the methods comprise inferring one or more genotypes for one or more markers at a locus or QTL to be the same as for an ancestor or founder or a subset of ancestors and/or founders from which a corresponding chromosome segment is derived and estimating the breeding value of the individual based on the inferred genotype(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ben Hayes, Michael Goddard
  • ARTIFICIAL SELECTION METHOD AND REAGENTS
    Publication number: 20140220575
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for estimating the breeding value of individuals in populations such as those having small effective population size (Ne) e.g., to identify selection candidates having high breeding values, wherein the methods comprise inferring one or more genotypes for one or more markers at a locus or QTL to be the same as for an ancestor or founder or a subset of ancestors and/or founders from which a corresponding chromosome segment is derived and estimating the breeding value of the individual based on the inferred genotype(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Limited
    Inventors: Ben HAYES, Michael GODDARD