Patents by Inventor Steven Jury

Steven Jury 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).

  • Methods for growing and imprinting fish using an odorant
    Patent number: 7055461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of imprinting fish in freshwater with at least one odorant for the fish and causing the imprinted fish to react to the odorant in seawater, wherein the fish are maintained in freshwater prior to transfer to seawater, The method includes: adding at least one Polyvalent Cation Sensing Receptor (PVCR) modulator to the freshwater in an amount sufficient to modulate expression and/or sensitivity of at least one PVCR, the PVCR modulator being one which alters olfactory sensing of the fish to the odorant; adding feed for fish consumption to the freshwater, the feed containing the odorant and an amount of NaCl sufficient to contribute to a significantly increased level of the PVCR modulator in serum of the fish upon consumption of the feed, whereby the fish are imprinted with the odorant; transferring the imprinted fish to seawater; and providing a source of said odorant in the seawater to which the imprinted fish are transferred, thereby causing the imprinted fish to react to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: MariCal, Inc.
    Inventors: H. William Harris, Jr., Steven Jury, David R. Russell, Jacqueline Nearing, Marlies Betka, Timothy Linley, Edward M. Brown
  • Methods for growing and imprinting fish using an odorant
    Publication number: 20040244714
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of imprinting fish in freshwater with at least one odorant for the fish and causing the imprinted fish to react to the odorant in seawater, wherein the fish are maintained in freshwater prior to transfer to seawater, The method includes: adding at least one Polyvalent Cation Sensing Receptor (PVCR) modulator to the freshwater in an amount sufficient to modulate expression and/or sensitivity of at least one PVCR, the PVCR modulator being one which alters olfactory sensing of the fish to the odorant; adding feed for fish consumption to the freshwater, the feed containing the odorant and an amount of NaCl sufficient to contribute to a significantly increased level of the PVCR modulator in serum of the fish upon consumption of the feed, whereby the fish are imprinted with the odorant; transferring the imprinted fish to seawater; and providing a source of said odorant in the seawater to which the imprinted fish are transferred, thereby causing the imprinted fish to react to
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: MariCal, Inc.
    Inventors: H. William Harris, Steven Jury, David R. Russell, Jacqueline Nearing, Marlies Betka, Timothy Linley, Edward M. Brown
  • Methods for growing and imprinting fish using an odorant
    Patent number: 6748900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of imprinting fish in freshwater with at least one odorant for the fish and causing the imprinted fish to react to the odorant in seawater, wherein the fish are maintained in freshwater prior to transfer to seawater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: MariCal, Inc.
    Inventors: H. William Harris, Jr., Steven Jury, David R. Russell, Jacqueline Nearing, Marlies Betka, Timothy Linley, Edward M. Brown
  • Methods for growing and imprinting fish using an odorant
    Publication number: 20030124090
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of imprinting fish to be sensitized to an odorant so that modulation of the PVCR in the olfactory apparatus occurs, and then exposing the fish with the same odorant after transfer to seawater or freshwater. The present invention also includes methods of homing or attracting fish, as well as methods for repelling fish by modulating the expression and/or sensitivity of the PVCR in the olfactory apparatus of the fish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: MariCal, Inc.
    Inventors: H. William Harris, Steven Jury, David R. Russell, Jacqueline Nearing, Marlies Betka, Timothy Linley, Edward M. Brown