Patents by Inventor Richard Schneeberger

Richard Schneeberger 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: 8278434
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward A Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Publication number: 20120124701
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels in plants, and plants containing such promoters or promoter control elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Tatiana Tatarinova, Yiwen Fang, Nickolai Alexandrov, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Noah Theiss, Danielle Grizard, Shawna Davis, Dennis Robles, Michael Portereiko, Emillo Margolles-Clark
  • Publication number: 20120084885
    Abstract: The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3? termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Nestor Apuya, Vyacheslav Brover, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Diane Jofuku, Edward A. Kiegle, Bill Kimmerly, Shing Kwok, Peter Mascia, Jack Okamuro, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Tatiana Tatarinova, Wayne Volkmuth
  • Publication number: 20110191912
    Abstract: The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3? termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait. One of ordinary skill in the art, having this data, can obtain cloned DNA fragments, synthetic DNA fragments or polypeptides constituting desired sequences by recombinant methodology known in the art or described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Nestor Apuya, Vyacheslav Brover, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Diane Jofuku, Edward A. Kiegle, Bill Kimmerly, Shing Kwok, Peter Mascia, Jack Okamuro, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Tatiana Tatarinova, Wayne Volkmuth
  • Publication number: 20110061124
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC
    Inventors: Gregory Nadzan, Richard Schneeberger, Han Suk Kim, David Van-Dinh Dang, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20110041219
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhihong COOK, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward A. Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Publication number: 20110041208
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Roger PENNELL, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Yu-Ping Lu, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Van-Dinh Dang, Zhihong Cook, Jack Okamuro, Nestor Apuya, Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Edward A. Kiegle, Leonard Medrano
  • Publication number: 20110016587
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward A. Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane Jofuku, Jonathan Donson
  • Patent number: 7868155
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Ping Lu, Roger Pennell, Jack Okamuro, Richard Schneeberger, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok
  • Patent number: 7851608
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward A Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Publication number: 20100310753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: NICKOLAI ALEXANDROV, VYACHESLAV BROVER, PETER MASCIA, KENNETH FELDMANN, RICHARD SCHNEEBERGER, GREG NADZAN
  • Publication number: 20100299784
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels in plants, and plants containing such promoters or promoter control elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Leonard MEDRANO, Yiwen Fang, Richard Schneeberger, Yu-Ping Lu, Nickolai Alexandrov, Tatiana Tatarinova, Jack Okamuro
  • Patent number: 7838650
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Yu-Ping Lu, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Van-Dinh Dang, Zhihong Cook, Jack Okamuro, Nestor Apuya, Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Edward A. Kiegle, Leonard Medrano
  • Patent number: 7803983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Peter Mascia, Kenneth Feldmann, Richard Schneeberger, Greg Nadzan
  • Publication number: 20100170002
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels in plants, and plants containing such promoters or promoter control elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Leonard Medrano, Yiwen Fang, Richard Schneeberger, Yu-Ping Lu, Nickolai Alexandrov, Tatiana Tatarinova, Jack Okamuro
  • Publication number: 20100146663
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased nitrogen use efficiency. The present invention further relates to nucleotide sequences and the use of those nucleotide sequences in the genetic-engineering of plants to display enhanced nitrogen assimilatory and utilization capacities, grow larger, more efficiently or rapidly, and/or have enriched nitrogen contents in vegetative and/or reproductive plant parts and/or increased biomass. More particularly, this invention relates to producing transgenic plants engineered to have altered expression of key components in the nitrogen assimilation and utilization pathways. The engineered plants may be productively cultivated under conditions of low nitrogen fertilizer input or in nitrogen poor soils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio MARGOLLES-CLARK, Gerard Magpantay
  • Patent number: 7696409
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased nitrogen use efficiency. The present invention further relates to nucleotide sequences and the use of those nucleotide sequences in the genetic-engineering of plants to display enhanced nitrogen assimilatory and utilization capacities, grow larger, more efficiently or rapidly, and/or have enriched nitrogen contents in vegetative and/or reproductive plant parts and/or increased biomass. More particularly, this invention relates to producing transgenic plants engineered to have altered expression of key components in the nitrogen assimilation and utilization pathways. The engineered plants may be productively cultivated under conditions of low nitrogen fertilizer input or in nitrogen poor soils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Gerard Magpantay
  • Publication number: 20100037346
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhihong COOK, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Edward A. Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane K. Jofuku, Jonathan Donson, Leonard Medrano
  • Publication number: 20100037344
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Edward A. Kiegle
  • Publication number: 20090181851
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward A. Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane Jofuku, Jonathan Donson