Patents by Inventor Richard Gerardus F. Visser

Richard Gerardus F. Visser 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: 7135619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for expressing a desired protein or polypeptide in a plant, in which the protein or polypeptide is expressed as a fusion with at least one starch binding domain. The plant is preferably a plant that contains or produces starch or starch granules in at least one of its parts, such as potato, sweet potato, cassava, pea, taro, sago, yam, banana and/or cereals such as rice, maize, wheat and barley. The protein or polypeptide can be an enzyme, in particular an enzyme that can convert, modify, alter, degrade or otherwise influence starch (granules); or can be a receptor or a structural protein. The invention further relates to the fusions thus obtained, to genetic constructs that encode the above fusions and to plants transformed with said constructs. The method of the invention can in particular be used to provide modified starches and/or to provide complexes of starch (granules) and the above fusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignees: Wageningen Universiteit, Cooperatieve Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
    Inventors: Richard Gerardus F. Visser, Jean-Paul Vincken