Patents by Inventor Peiguang Hu

Peiguang Hu 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).

  • Compositions comprising a nanoparticle, a molecular basket comprising cyclodextrin, and a chloroplast-targeting peptide and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 11186845
    Abstract: Compositions for chemical and/or genetic modification of chloroplasts of plants include a functionalized nanoparticle composition linked to a chloroplast-targeting peptide and a functionalized single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) composition complexed with a nucleic acid cassette encoding a plastid-specific ribosomal RNA operon (prrn). Methods for chemically and/or genetically modifying chloroplasts of plants include administering these chloroplast-targeted compositions to the leaves of live plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Juan Pablo Giraldo Gomez, Peiguang Hu, Israel Santana, Gregory Newkirk, Honghong Wu