Patents by Inventor Stanislaw Flasinski

Stanislaw Flasinski 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).

  • Chimeric promoter comprising FMV enhancer and HSP81-2 promoter and plants transformed therewith
    Patent number: 8940962
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant viral enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel chimeric promoters; and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING A TRANSGENIC REFUGE SEED BLEND
    Publication number: 20140338072
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for deploying refuge seeds with transgenic crop seeds comprising event MON 87411 are provided. The refuge seeds can be non-transgenic seeds of a similar variety to that of the transgenic crop seeds, or the refuge seeds can be a transgenic variety, but lack event MON 87411 found in the transgenic crop seeds and serve as a refuge thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Wen C. Burns, Catherine A. Chay, Cheryl L. Cloninger, Mingqi Deng, Stanislaw Flasinski, Kunsheng Wu
  • Genome wide identification and characterization of gene expression regulatory elements in for use in plants
    Patent number: 8859746
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the lipid transfer protein (LTP) gene of Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Oryza sativa regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Qi Wang, James Morrell, Linda Lutfiyya, Maolong Lu, Zhaolong Li, Ping Li, Michelle Lacy, David Kovalic, Yongwei Cao, Andrey Boukharov, Stanislaw Flasinski, Peter T. Hajdukiewicz
  • Chimeric plant promoters and their uses in plants
    Patent number: 8846892
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel chimeric promoters; and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
  • PLANT REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140283201
    Abstract: The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs, and their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising a recombinant DNA molecule comprising a DNA molecule operably linked to a heterologous transcribable DNA molecule, as well as methods of their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Jun Zhang, Suling Zhao
  • Hybrid caulimovirus promoters and constructs thereof
    Patent number: 8822666
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hybrid promoters comprising a caulimovirus promoter operably linked to one or more of an EF1?, Act8, Act2 or Act11 promoter. The present invention also relates to novel DNA constructs comprising at least one expression cassette which comprises the hybrid promoter thereof. The present invention further relates to transgenic plants/seeds comprising such DNA constructs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Karen L. Fincher, Stanislaw Flasinski, Jack Q. Wilkinson
  • Chloroplast transit peptides for efficient targeting of DMO and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8791325
    Abstract: The invention provides for identification and use of certain chloroplast transit peptides for efficient processing and localization of dicamba monooxygenase (DMO) enzyme in transgenic plants. Methods for producing dicamba tolerant plants, methods for controlling weed growth, and methods for producing food, feed, and other products are also provided, as well as seed that confers tolerance to dicamba when it is applied pre- or post-emergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Paul C. C. Feng, Marianne Malven, Stanislaw Flasinski
  • Hemipteran-and Coleopteran Active Toxin Proteins from Bacillus Thuringiensis
    Publication number: 20140194351
    Abstract: A novel Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth of Lygus insects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein in Lygus insect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James A. Baum, Stanislaw Flasinski, Gregory R. Heck, Stephen R. Penn, Uma Rao Sukuru, Xiaohong Shi
  • PLANT REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140189909
    Abstract: The invention provides novel recombinant DNA molecules and constructs useful for modulating gene expression in plants, plant cells, seeds, and progeny plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and progeny plants comprising the recombinant DNA molecules of the invention, along with methods of their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
  • ISOLATED NOVEL NUCLEIC ACID AND PROTEIN MOLECULES FROM FOXTAIL MILLET AND METHODS OF USING THOSE MOLECULES TO GENERATE TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED AGRONOMIC TRAITS
    Publication number: 20140165234
    Abstract: This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides and various uses of these sequences. Also provided are transgenic plants, seeds, and plant cells containing DNA for expression of the proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants, methods of making such plants and methods of making agricultural commodity including seeds and hybrid seeds from such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Charles DIETRICH, Stanislaw FLASINSKI, Liang GUO, Zhaolong LI, Bo-Xing QIU, Wei WU
  • PLANT REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140109261
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel regulatory elements for use in plants. The present invention also provides DNA constructs containing these novel regulatory elements; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel regulatory elements; and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Charles R. Dietrich
  • Chimeric regulatory sequences comprising introns for plant gene expression
    Patent number: 8673631
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of using a dicot intron or elements thereof to enhance transgene expression in plants. The present invention also provides constructs, transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide useful for expressing transgene in plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Christopher Hubmeier, Maolong Lu, Marianne Malven, Wei Wu
  • ADENYLATE TRANSLOCATOR PROTEIN GENE NON-CODING REGULATORY ELEMENTS FOR USE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20140007302
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element molecules isolated from the adenylate translocator protein gene and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Yun-Chia Sophia Chen
  • METHODS FOR USING ARTIFICIAL POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF TO REDUCE TRANSGENE SILENCING
    Publication number: 20140007288
    Abstract: The materials and methods disclosed provide for polynucleotide molecules sufficiently divergent from polynucleotides naturally contained in plants, or polynucleotides previously introduced into plants as transgenes to permit trait stacking in plant breeding methods or plant transformation methods. The disclosure also provides for methods and compositions to detect the polynucleotides of the invention in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
  • CORN EVENT MON 87411
    Publication number: 20130340111
    Abstract: The invention provides corn event MON 87411, and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising event MON 87411. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 87411 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event MON 87411. The invention also provides methods related to event MON 87411.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Wen C. Burns, Catherine A. Chay, Cheryl L. Cloninger, Mingqi Deng, Stanislaw Flasinski, Kunsheng Wu
  • HYBRID CAULIMOVIRUS PROMOTERS AND CONSTRUCTS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130338005
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hybrid promoters comprising a caulimovirus promoter operably linked to one or more of an EF1?, Act8, Act2 or Act11 promoter. The present invention also relates to novel DNA constructs comprising at least one expression cassette which comprises the hybrid promoter thereof. The present invention further relates to transgenic plants/seeds comprising such DNA constructs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: KAREN L. FINCHER, STANISLAW FLASINSKI, JACK Q. WILKINSON
  • Hemipteran-and coleopteran active toxin proteins from
    Patent number: 8609936
    Abstract: A novel Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth of Lygus insects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein in Lygus insect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James Baum, Stanislaw Flasinski, Gregory R. Heck, Stephen R. Penn, Uma Rao Sukuru, Xiaohong Shi
  • Novel Hemipteran and Coleopteran Active Toxin Proteins From Bacillus Thuringiensis
    Publication number: 20130305416
    Abstract: A novel Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth of Lygus insects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein in Lygus insect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: James A. Baum, Stanislaw Flasinski, Gregory R. Heck, Stephen R. Penn, Uma Rao Sukuru, Xiaohong Shi
  • Plant regulatory elements from a metallothionein-like gene and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8580942
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel regulatory elements for use in plants. The present invention also provides DNA constructs containing these novel regulatory elements; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel regulatory elements; and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Charles R. Dietrich
  • Hemipteran and coleopteran active toxin proteins from
    Patent number: 8513493
    Abstract: A novel Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth of Lygus insects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein in Lygus insect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James Baum, Stanislaw Flasinski, Gregory R. Heck, Stephen R. Penn, Uma Rao Sukuru, Xiaohong Shi