Patents by Inventor Yonatan Elkind

Yonatan Elkind 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).

  • Publication number: 20230048027
    Abstract: A composition for reducing the weight loss and/or preserving the natural gloss of post-harvest edible plant matter, and methods for applying the compositions to the surface of the plant matter. The compositions include an edible wax having a melting temperature below 70° C.; a hydrocolloid; a fatty acid; an emulsifier; and water, wherein the edible wax is present in a weight percent ranging from about 10% to about 25% of the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.
    Inventors: Amos NUSSINOVITCH, Tal MARMUR, Yonatan ELKIND
  • Patent number: 11160244
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel plants, in particular to pepper plants capable of producing fruits which can be kept a longer period of time on the plant as well as being stored after harvesting under refrigerated conditions without exhibiting excessive softening. The invention thus refers to pepper plant which produces fruits with significantly increased fruit firmness at the harvesting stage, wherein said increased fruit firmness is controlled by a genetic determinant, monogenic, wherein said increased fruit firmness is defined as a fruit deformation under a 1 kg load force that is lower than that of a fruit from a control pepper plant which does not have the said genetic determinant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD.
    Inventor: Yonatan Elkind
  • Publication number: 20180084748
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel plants, in particular to pepper plants capable of producing fruits which can be kept a longer period of time on the plant as well as being stored after harvesting under refrigerated conditions without exhibiting excessive softening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem LTD.
    Inventor: Yonatan ELKIND
  • Publication number: 20170215445
    Abstract: Provided is a composition and methods for reducing the weight loss and/or preserving the natural gloss of post-harvest edible plant matter. In particular, the methods including applying to the surface of the plant matter a composition including an edible wax having a melting temperature below 70° C.; a hydrocolloid; a fatty acid; an emulsifier; and water, wherein said edible wax is present in a weight percent ranging from about 10% to about 25% of the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.
    Inventors: Amos NUSSINOVITCH, Tal MARMUR, Yonatan ELKIND
  • Patent number: 9648890
    Abstract: The present invention discloses composition and methods for reducing the weight loss and/or preserving the natural gloss of post-harvest edible plant matter. In particular, the methods comprising applying to the surface of the plant matter a composition comprising an edible wax having a melting temperature below 70° C.; a hydrocolloid; a fatty acid; an emulsifier; and water, wherein said edible wax is present in a weight percent ranging from about 10% to about 25% of the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.
    Inventors: Amos Nussinovitch, Tal Marmur, Yonatan Elkind
  • Publication number: 20150079248
    Abstract: The present invention discloses composition and methods for reducing the weight loss and/or preserving the natural gloss of post-harvest edible plant matter. In particular, the methods comprising applying to the surface of the plant matter a composition comprising an edible wax having a melting temperature below 70° C.; a hydrocolloid; a fatty acid; an emulsifier; and water, wherein said edible wax is present in a weight percent ranging from about 10% to about 25% of the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Amos Nussinovitch, Tal Marmur, Yonatan Elkind
  • Patent number: 7365247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rapid and large-scale production of tomato mutants by utilizing a miniature tomato plant which can be crossed with tomato commercial plants. Mutations are induced in the miniature tomato cultivars and desired mutants are subsequently identified in the resulting mutant tomato population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd., Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventors: Avraham Levy, Rafael Meissner, Yonatan Elkind
  • Publication number: 20040244076
    Abstract: The present invention enables the rapid and large-scale production of mutants in crop plants. This is accomplished by utilizing a miniature plant which can be crossed with a commercial plant of the same species. Mutations are induced in the miniature cultivar, and the mutants subsequently identified in the resulting mutant plant population. Mutant genes of interest can be introgressed into a commercial cultivar by crossing selected mutant miniature plants with the commercial cultivar. Reverse genetics can be undertaken using a plant population of the miniature crop which contains random T-DNA or transposon insertion events and screening this population for insertions into genes of interest. Likewise, the miniature plant population is transformed with a DNA construct comprised of a promoter-less screenable marker gene within a mobile DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Avraham Levy, Rafael Meissner, Yonatan Elkind
  • Patent number: 6759569
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rapid and large-scale production of tomato mutants by utilizing miniature tomato plants which can be crossed with tomato commercial plants. Mutations are induced in the miniature tomato cultivars and desired mutants are subsequently identified in the resulting mutant tomato population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventors: Avraham A. Levy, Rafael Meissner, Yonatan Elkind
  • Patent number: 6134829
    Abstract: A method of cultivation of tomatoes resulting in the essentially simultaneous ripening of the entire crop, enabling "one time over" harvesting, saving time and manpower. Sterile tomato plants are cultivated, parthenocarpy is induced by application of a growth regulator. Suitable substances resulting in parthenocarpic fruit set are auxins are auxin transport inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: YISSUM Research Development Company of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventors: Yonatan Elkind, Ben-Zion Zaidman
  • Patent number: 6087557
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there are provided methods to modulate plant lignification. For example, the level of the enzyme phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), a key enzyme in the production of lignin precursors, can be increased or decreased, as desired, to increase or decrease lignification levels. Alternatively, the level of lignin precursors in the plant can be modulated either by enhancing the plant's ability to produce such precursors, or by causing the compounds which are required for the production of lignin precursors to undergo alternative chemical conversions (which prevent the incorporation of such compounds into lignin by diverting the lignin precursors to other chemical pathways). In addition, there is provided a method for producing plants having modified lignin composition and content, by converting a portion of the cinnamic acid in said plant to styrene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    Inventors: Monika Clausen, Christopher J. Lamb, Peter Doerner, Yonatan Elkind, Roland Megnet