Patents by Inventor Zongrang Liu

Zongrang Liu 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).

  • FUNGAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND ENHANCES PLANT GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20220127561
    Abstract: Cladosporium sphaerospermum produces at least one volatile organic compound (VOC). When a plant is exposed to the VOC produced by a strain of C. sphaerospermum, the plant has an increase in at least one growth characteristic compared to the growth characteristic of an untreated plant of the same age as the treated plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher D. Dardick, Wojciech J. Janisiewicz, Zongrang Liu, Zhijian Li, Ann M. Callahan
  • Fungal volatile organic compound enhances plant s growth characteristics
    Patent number: 11254907
    Abstract: A method of increasing east one growth characteristic of a plant comprising growing a Cladosporium sphaerospermum strain in or on a medium in a container, where a headspace of said C. sphaerospermum in said container is in fluid communication with a headspace of said plant, where said C. sphaerospermum produces at least one volatile organic compound (VOC), where said at least one VOC produced by said C. sphaerospermum causes the plant to have an increase in at least one growth characteristic when compared to the growth characteristic of a plant which has not been exposed to the VOC, and where said C. sphaerospermum comprises an ITS1/2 consensus amplicon of SEQ ID NO: 5 and an ITS3/4 consensus amplicon of SEQ ID NO: 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Christopher D. Dardick, Wojciech J. Janisiewicz, Zongrang Liu, Zhijian Li, Ann M Callahan
  • FUNGAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND ENHANCES PLANT S GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20200045980
    Abstract: Cladosporium sphaerospermum produces at least one volatile organic compound (VOC). When a plant is exposed to the VOC produced by a strain of C. sphaerospermum, the plant has an increase in at least one growth characteristic compared to the growth characteristic of an untreated plant of the same age as the treated plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher D. Dardick, Wojciech J. Janisiewicz, Zongrang Liu, Zhijian Li