Patents by Inventor Timothy J. TSCHAPLINSKI

Timothy J. TSCHAPLINSKI 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 CONTROLLING CELL WALL BIOSYNTHESIS AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS
    Publication number: 20240076686
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of producing plants with preferred levels of cell wall biosynthesis; and uses of such plants. The inventors have identified that the GFR9, CCoAOMT and MYB41 genes are major regulators of the cell wall biosynthesis pathway. Plants with modulated cell wall biosynthesis, based on modulation of the expression or activity of the GFR9, CCoAOMT and MYB41 genes, have divergent uses including pulp and paper production, and bioproduct production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Daniel A. Jacobson, David Kainer, Deborah A. Weighill, Anna K. Furches
  • Methods for controlling cell wall biosynthesis and genetically modified plants
    Patent number: 11725215
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of producing plants with preferred levels of cell wall biosynthesis; and uses of such plants. The inventors have identified that the GFR9, CCoAOMT and MYB41 genes are major regulators of the cell wall biosynthesis pathway. Plants with modulated cell wall biosynthesis, based on modulation of the expression or activity of the GFR9, CCoAOMT and MYB41 genes, have divergent uses including pulp and paper production, and bioproduct production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Daniel A. Jacobson, David Kainer, Deborah A. Weighill, Anna K. Furches
  • FILAMENTOUS FUNGI CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACIDS
    Publication number: 20200325505
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of producing fatty acids haying chains longer than 18 carbon atoms by growing a strain of Mortierella elongata on a fermentation medium comprising a carbon source and a nitrogen source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Jessy L. Labbe, Wellington Muchero, Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Matthew R. Entler
  • METHODS FOR CONTROLLING CELL WALL BIOSYNTHESIS AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS
    Publication number: 20200102571
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of producing plants with preferred levels of cell wall biosynthesis; and uses of such plants. The inventors have identified that the GFR9, CCoAOMT and MYB41 genes are major regulators of the cell wall biosynthesis pathway. Plants with modulated cell wall biosynthesis, based on modulation of the expression or activity of the GFR9, CCoAOMT and MYB41 genes, have divergent uses including pulp and paper production, and bioproduct production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Daniel A. Jacobson, David Kainer, Deborah A. Weighill, Anna K. Furches
  • Key gene regulating cell wall biosynthesis and recalcitrance in , gene Y
    Patent number: 9206436
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and transgenic plants for improved production of renewable biofuels and other plant-derived biomaterials by altering the expression and/or activity of Gene Y, an O-acetyltransferase. This disclosure also provides expression vectors containing a nucleic acid (Gene Y) which encodes the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 1 and is operably linked to a heterologous promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Jay Chen, Nancy L. Engle, Lee E. Gunter, Sara Jawdy, Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Gerald A. Tuskan
  • KEY GENE REGULATING CELL WALL BIOSYNTHESIS AND RECALCITRANCE IN POPULUS, GENE Y
    Publication number: 20140182013
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and transgenic plants for improved production of renewable biofuels and other plant-derived biomaterials by altering the expression and/or activity of Gene Y, an O-acetyltransferase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Jay CHEN, Nancy L. ENGLE, Lee E. GUNTER, Sara JAWDY, Timothy J. TSCHAPLINSKI, Gerald A. TUSKAN