Patents by Inventor Thomas Elmo Clemente

Thomas Elmo Clemente 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).

  • Method for transforming soybeans
    Patent number: 5959179
    Abstract: Methods and materials for the production of transgenic soybeans are disclosed. Preparation of explants from specific regions of soybean seedlings resulted in improved transformation efficiencies. Incubation of soybean seedlings between about 0.degree. C. and about 10.degree. C. prior to preparing explants was found to be further beneficial to the preparation of transgenic soybeans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventors: Maud Ann Wrightson Hinchee, Thomas Elmo Clemente, Dannette Vaudrilyn Connor-Ward, Mary Jacqueline Fedele, Joyce Ellen Fry, Arlene R. Howe, Renee Jean Rozman