Patents by Inventor Michael Willits

Michael Willits 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).

  • Publication number: 20050166857
    Abstract: An animal litter and method of making animal litter formulated from a mixture of cedar mill waste, pine mill waste, recycled construction wood waste and cereal hulls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Brent Deroo, Timothy Carlson, Michael Willits
  • Publication number: 20050160495
    Abstract: The present invention includes non-transgenic domesticated tomato plants that express flavonols in the flesh and peel of the tomato unit, and includes the seeds and fruits of such plants. The method of the invention includes assaying tomato plants for expression of one or more of the flavonol biosynthesis genes in the flesh and/or expression of CHI in the peel. The method of the invention includes selecting wild tomato species that express CHI in the fruit peel, and/or one or more genes of the flavonol biosynthesis pathway in the flesh, and introgressing the genetic factors responsible for this expression from the wild tomato species into a domesticated tomato plant using traditional breeding techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Willits, Vincenzo Deluca, Gerson Graser, Catherine Kramer, Rogerio Prata
  • Publication number: 20050132438
    Abstract: Homologues of the Arabidopsis NIM1 gene, which is involved in the signal transduction cascade leading to systemic acquired resistance (SAR), are isolated from monocotyledonous crops such as Triticum aestivum (wheat) and Oryza sativa (rice).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Helen Wang, John Salmeron, Michael Willits, Kay Lawton