Patents by Inventor Russell Colin Viner

Russell Colin Viner 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: 20120331580
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
  • Publication number: 20120311738
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
  • Publication number: 20120311739
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
  • Publication number: 20120311740
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
  • Publication number: 20120304335
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
  • Patent number: 8269068
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
  • Publication number: 20120202691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula (I), which is suitable for use as a herbicide wherein G is hydrogen or an agriculturally acceptable metal, sulfonium, ammonium or latentiating group; Q is a unsubstituted or substituted C3-C8 saturated or mono-unsaturated heterocyclyl containing at least one heteroatom selected from O, N and S, or Q is heteroaryl or substituted heteroaryl; m is 1, 2 or 3; and Het is an optionally substituted monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring; and wherein the compound is optionally an agronomically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Stephane André Marie Jeanmart, Adrian Longstaff, Christopher John Mathews, Claire Janet Russel, Russell Colin Viner, Frances Kathryn Wood
  • Patent number: 8188053
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to a method of ameliorating an inflammatory skin condition. Thus, the present invention provides a peptide that includes the amino acid sequence KMIKP (SEQ ID NO: 20), wherein the peptide includes no more than 70 amino acids and wherein the peptide is capable of inhibiting allergen induced Langerhans cell migration, and wherein the peptide is not that depicted in SEQ ID NO. 19. The present invention also relates to the use of a peptide that includes the amino acid sequence KMIKP (SEQ ID NO: 20), wherein the peptide includes no more than 100 amino acids, and wherein the peptide is capable of inhibiting allergen induced Langerhans cell migration, in the manufacture of a topical medicament for the treatment of an inflammatory skin condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Manchester
    Inventors: Marie Cumberbatch, Rebecca Jane Dearman, Ian Kimber, Russell Colin Viner
  • Publication number: 20110263428
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC.
    Inventors: Stephane Andre Marie Jeanmart, Russell Colin Viner, John Benjamin Taylor, William Guy Whittingham, Jeffrey Steven Wailes, Sarah Margaret Targett, Christopher John Mathews, Mangala Govenkar, Matthew Robert Cordingley, Claire Janet Russell, Melloney Tyte
  • Publication number: 20110023180
    Abstract: Novel hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) polypeptides, variants and fragments thereof, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same, capable of conferring commercial levels of conferring HPPD herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for HPPD polypeptides, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same. Methods for the production and use of HPPD herbicide resistant plants that express these novel HPPD polypeptides, methods for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus, and methods for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of these novel HPPDs are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Timothy Robert HAWKES, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale, Shradha Singh, Vance Kramer
  • Publication number: 20100197503
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
  • Publication number: 20090253631
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to a method of ameliorating an inflammatory skin condition. Thus, the present invention provides a peptide that includes the amino acid sequence KMIKP (SEQ ID NO: 20), wherein the peptide includes no more than 70 amino acids and wherein the peptide is capable of inhibiting allergen induced Langerhans cell migration, and wherein the peptide is not that depicted in SEQ ID NO. 19. The present invention also relates to the use of a peptide that includes the amino acid sequence KMIKP (SEQ ID NO: 20), wherein the peptide includes no more than 100 amino acids, and wherein the peptide is capable of inhibiting allergen induced Langerhans cell migration, in the manufacture of a topical medicament for the treatment of an inflammatory skin condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Marie Cumberbatch, Rebecca Jane Dearman, Ian Kimber, Russell Colin Viner