Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Coates

Stephen A. Coates 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).

  • Modification of starch production
    Patent number: 5365016
    Abstract: A process is provided whereby the constitution of starch produced in a plant is altered without there being a substantial change in the total amount of starch which is produced. In the process a plant cell is transformed using a chimaeric gene comprising an antisense coding sequence from the waxy locus of a plant genome or an antisense similar coding sequence from a non-plant genome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Limited
    Inventors: Michael M. Burrell, Stephen A. Coates