Patents by Inventor Michael Strand

Michael Strand 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).

  • Patent number: 9422575
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of producing a genetically modified cell by introducing a polydnavirus delivery construct to a target cell. The polydnavirus delivery construct can comprise an exogenous nucleic acid to form a genetically modified cell comprising the exogenous nucleic acid. Also provided are polydnavirus delivery constructs comprising an exogenous nucleic acid, as well as polydnavirus virions and genetically modified cells comprising the same. Further provided are in vitro methods of identifying a transformed cell. The methods comprise introducing a vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a glc polypeptide to an adherent cell and cultivating the cell under conditions that allow for the expression of the glc polypeptide. Expression of the glc polypeptide results in a transformed cell that is identified by a loss of adherency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Strand
  • Publication number: 20150225218
    Abstract: A method of operating a fork-lift truck includes steps to determine a hydraulic pressure signal P by means of the at least one detection device, wherein the hydraulic pressure signal P corresponds to an hydraulic pressure in, at least a section, of an hydraulic system of a fork-lift truck 1, transfer the hydraulic pressure signal P to an electronic load carrier unit, determine by means of the electronic load carrier unit whether the hydraulic pressure signal P adopts a value, within a predetermined value range Pval, determine by means of the electronic load carrier unit if a load carrier of the forklift truck is, at least partially, supported by an external object no being part of the forklift truck or a fixed internal object of the fork-lift truck, based on the determination whether the hydraulic pressure signal is within the predetermined value range Pval. Embodiments of the invention also include a computer program product and a fork-lift truck that can perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventor: Michael Strand
  • Publication number: 20140302609
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of producing a genetically modified cell by introducing a polydnavirus delivery construct to a target cell. The polydnavirus delivery construct can comprise an exogenous nucleic acid to form a genetically modified cell comprising the exogenous nucleic acid. Also provided are polydnavirus delivery constructs comprising an exogenous nucleic acid, as well as polydnavirus virions and genetically modified cells comprising the same. Further provided are in vitro methods of identifying a transformed cell. The methods comprise introducing a vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a glc polypeptide to an adherent cell and cultivating the cell under conditions that allow for the expression of the glc polypeptide. Expression of the glc polypeptide results in a transformed cell that is identified by a loss of adherency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Strand
  • Publication number: 20070204032
    Abstract: Displayed content of signage at a distal location is at least partially controlled by a processor and database that directs signage display from a distal location. A central location processing system collects information on local, area wide, national or international conditions, events or changes in status and directs local signage to display appropriate information. The central location itself collects information, samples information, and evaluates general information to determine what specific information may be appropriately or desirably displayed at local signage. The display may be relevant to seasonal events such as holidays, sports events, actual changes in season, school year beginnings or endings, political events and the like, or independent events or conditions such as weather changes, severe weather, sales events, consumer alerts, public alerts, special event days. Information displayed locally can consider evaluation of local response to a range of potentially displayed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventor: Michael Strand