Patents by Inventor William David Lane

William David Lane 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).

  • PAP SYSTEM BLOWER
    Publication number: 20240125325
    Abstract: A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a bearing-housing structure provided to the housing and adapted to rotatably support a rotor, a motor provided to the bearing-housing structure and adapted to drive the rotor, and an impeller provided to the rotor. The bearing-housing structure includes a bearing shaft having a bearing surface that rotatably supports the rotor. The bearing shaft provides only a single bearing of the non-ball bearing type for the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Samuel Aziz MEBASSER, Peter Jeffrey THOMAS, Roman VINOKUR, Kevin Gene McCULLOH, William S. LANE, Yeu-chuan HSIA, Michael David BEDNAR, John Paul FREESE, Karl Yutaka IWAHASHI, David Brent SEARS, Barton John KENYON, Richard G. KRUM, Par Egron DANNAS, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Malcolm Edward LEADER
  • GENETICALLY MODIFIED REDUCED-BROWNING FRUIT-PRODUCING PLANT AND PRODUCED FRUIT THEREOF, AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SUCH
    Publication number: 20220267786
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • Genetically modified reduced-browning fruit-producing plant and produced fruit thereof, and method of obtaining such
    Patent number: 11359205
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: OKANAGAN SPECIALITY FRUITS INC.
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • GENETICALLY MODIFIED REDUCED-BROWNING FRUIT-PRODUCING PLANT AND PRODUCED FRUIT THEREOF, AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SUCH
    Publication number: 20200002713
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • Genetically modified reduced-browning fruit-producing plant and produced fruit thereof, and method of obtaining such
    Patent number: 10227602
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: OKANAGAN SPECIALTY FRUITS INC.
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • GENETICALLY MODIFIED REDUCED-BROWNING FRUIT-PRODUCING PLANT AND PRODUCED FRUIT THEREOF, AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SUCH
    Publication number: 20180127766
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: JOHN ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM DAVID LANE
  • Genetically modified reduced-browning fruit-producing plant and produced fruit thereof, and method of obtaining such
    Patent number: 9580723
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: OKANAGAN SPECIALTY FRUITS INC.
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • GENETICALLY MODIFIED REDUCED-BROWNING FRUIT-PRODUCING PLANT AND PRODUCED FRUIT THEREOF, AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SUCH
    Publication number: 20140041079
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc.
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • Genetically modified reduced-browning fruit-producing plant and produced fruit thereof, and method of obtaining such
    Patent number: 8563805
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc.
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • GENETICALLY MODIFIED REDUCED-BROWNING FRUIT-PRODUCING PLANT AND PRODUCED FRUIT THEREOF, AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SUCH
    Publication number: 20110004957
    Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: OKANAGAN SPECIALTY FRUITS INC.
    Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
  • Six-gun foot peg
    Patent number: D455374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Inventor: William David Lane
  • Tumbling dice light
    Patent number: D457980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Inventor: William David Lane
  • Six-gun handlebar grip
    Patent number: D487011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Inventor: William David Lane
  • tree named ‘SPC103’
    Patent number: PP26645
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Prunus avium, ‘SPC103’, characterized by its very late harvest season, its flowers that are self-fertile, its intermediate to high precocity of fruit bearing, its spreading growth habit with horizontal one year-old shoots, its fruit skin and flesh that is dark red-purple in color with juice that is high in sweetness, and its firm and moderately juicy fruit that is kidney to cordate in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of Agricultural and Agri-Food
    Inventors: William David Lane, Richard MacDonald
  • tree named ‘13S2101’
    Patent number: PP26646
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Prunus avium, ‘13S2101’, characterized by its very late harvest season, its flowers that are self-fertile, its moderate precocity of fruit bearing, its spreading growth habit with horizontal one year-old shoots, its fruit skin and flesh that is red color with juice that is high in sweetness, and its firm fruit that is elongate to cordate in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
    Inventors: William David Lane, Richard MacDonald
  • tree named ‘SPC136’
    Patent number: PP26680
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Prunus avium, ‘SPC136’, characterized by its mid-season fruit harvest, its flowers that are not self-fertile, lateness of bloom, its intermediate precocity of fruit bearing, its upright growth habit, its fruit skin that is wine red in color and flesh that is dark red to black in color, its large flowers with wide petals, and its firm, very large, kidney-shaped fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
    Inventors: William David Lane, Richard MacDonald
  • Sweet cherry tree named ‘SPC243’
    Patent number: PP27927
    Abstract: A new cultivar of sweet cherry tree named ‘SPC243’, that is characterized by its upright growth habit with semi-erect one year-old shoots and sparse crown density, its small fruit that is elongated kidney shaped, its fruit skin that is yellow in color with an orange-red over-color, its fruit flesh that is yellow in color, its moderate to high fruiting precocity, its flowers that are self-fertile, and its late to very late fruit harvest season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD
    Inventor: William David Lane
  • tree named ‘SPA493’
    Patent number: PP28075
    Abstract: A new cultivar of apple tree, ‘SPA493’, that is characterized by its spreading tree habit that is easy to manage, its moderate growth rate, its medium sized fruit that is globose in shape, its fruit with a sweet-tart flavor, its fruit with skin that is yellow in color heavily blushed with red, its fruit that has a very long storage period, and its mid to late harvest period in British Columbia, Canada.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD
    Inventor: William David Lane
  • Sweet cherry tree named ‘SPC342’
    Patent number: PP29788
    Abstract: A new cultivar of sweet cherry tree, ‘SPC342’, that is characterized by its very high fruit stem pull force, its large fruit with an attractive appearance, its flowers that are not self-fertile, its distinctive maroon spots on its leaves, and its good fruit storage capacity in MAP (modified atmosphere packaging).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD
    Inventor: William David Lane
  • plant named ‘SPA766’
    Patent number: PP30060
    Abstract: A new cultivar of apple tree, ‘SPA766’, that is characterized by its fruit with skin that has a red over color with prominent medium sized lenticels, its fruit that is crisp with a pleasant tasting, its fruit that has a medium storage period, and its weak vigor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD
    Inventor: William David Lane