Patents by Inventor Robert Joseph Stankey

Robert Joseph Stankey 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).

  • EXPRESSION VECTOR
    Publication number: 20220372517
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are recombinant methods of activating expression of one or more biosynthetic gene clusters comprising more than one gene, the method comprising a recombinant DNA expression vector that possess two opposable inducible promoters that drives expression of a biosynthetic gene cluster exogenously from outside of the cluster to produce polyketides or non-ribosomal peptides in a heterologous host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Joseph STANKEY, DAVID MEAD
  • Expression vector
    Patent number: 11390882
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are recombinant methods of activating expression of one or more biosynthetic gene clusters comprising more than one gene, the method comprising a recombinant DNA expression vector that possess two opposable inducible promoters that drives expression of a biosynthetic gene cluster exogenously from outside of the cluster to produce polyketides or non-ribosomal peptides in a heterologous host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: VARIGEN BIOSCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Stankey, David Mead
  • EXPRESSION VECTOR
    Publication number: 20200291430
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are recombinant methods of activating expression of one or more biosynthetic gene clusters comprising more than one gene, the method comprising a recombinant DNA expression vector that possess two opposable inducible promoters that drives expression of a biosynthetic gene cluster exogenously from outside of the cluster to produce polyketides or non-ribosomal peptides in a heterologous host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Joseph STANKEY, David MEAD
  • Method of creating industrial streptomyces with capability to grow on cellulosic polysaccharide substrates
    Patent number: 10428334
    Abstract: A heterologous gene cassette useful for creating Streptomyces species with enhanced capability of growing on a cellulosic polysaccharide substrate, wherein the cassette comprises at least two members of the following categories: a) a GH6 gene, b) an AA10 gene, c) a GH48 gene, d) a GH5 gene and e) either (i) a GH9 gene, (ii) a GH9 gene and a GH12 gene, or (iii) a GH12 gene is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Brian Grant Fox, Robert Joseph Stankey, Cameron Robert Currie, Emily Beebe
  • METHOD OF CREATING INDUSTRIAL STREPTOMYCES WITH CAPABILITY TO GROW ON CELLULOSIC POLYSACCHARIDE SUBSTRATES
    Publication number: 20170283812
    Abstract: A heterologous gene cassette useful for creating Streptomyces species with enhanced capability of growing on a cellulosic polysaccharide substrate, wherein the cassette comprises at least two members of the following categories: a) a GH6 gene, b) an AA10 gene, c) a GH48 gene, d) a GH5 gene and e) either (i) a GH9 gene, (ii) a GH9 gene and a GH12 gene, or (iii) a GH12 gene is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Grant Fox, Robert Joseph Stankey, Cameron Robert Currie, Emily Beebe
  • Plants with altered phytochromes
    Patent number: 9587247
    Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that increase the light sensitivity of plants were identified. Introduction of the polynucleotides into plants produces plants having altered characteristics, such as decreased height, decreased diameter, decreased petiole length, decreased internode length, decreased hypocotyl length, increased hyponasty or enhanced germination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Junrui Zhang, Richard David Vierstra, Robert Joseph Stankey
  • PLANTS WITH ALTERED PHYTOCHROMES
    Publication number: 20140075599
    Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that increase the light sensitivity of plants were identified. Introduction of the polynucleotides into plants produces plants having altered characteristics, such as decreased height, decreased diameter, decreased petiole length, decreased internode length, decreased hypocotyl length, increased hyponasty or enhanced germination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Junrui Zhang, Richard David Vierstra, Robert Joseph Stankey