Patents Issued in June 1, 2021
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Patent number: 11019779Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PBEZ65 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PBEZ65, cells from soybean variety 5PBEZ65, plants of soybean 5PBEZ65, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PBEZ65. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PBEZ65 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PBEZ65, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PBEZ65, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PBEZ65. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PBEZ65 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventors: Joel Reese Hemingway, John Gerard Van Herk, Hui Wang
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Patent number: 11019780Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PPFQ87 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PPFQ87, cells from soybean variety 5PPFQ87, plants of soybean 5PPFQ87, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PPFQ87. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PPFQ87 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PPFQ87, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PPFQ87, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PPFQ87. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PPFQ87 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventors: Martin A Fabrizius, Andrea Beth Kalvig, Michael Thomas Roach
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Patent number: 11019781Abstract: Purple baby broccoli plants and methods for producing purple baby broccoli plants are disclosed. The invention relates to the plants and seeds of purple baby broccoli and to methods for producing a Brassica oleracea plant having purple head and purple stems plant by crossing the purple baby broccoli with itself or another cultivar. The invention further relates to the parents of purple baby broccoli and for methods of producing purple baby broccoli. The invention also relates to methods for producing locus conversion plants of purple baby broccoli and its parent plants and to the plants produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Brassica oleracea cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from purple baby broccoli, to methods for producing other Brassica oleracea cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from purple baby broccoli and to the Brassica oleracea plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Sakata Seed America, Inc.Inventor: Tsunehiro Yagoshi
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Patent number: 11019782Abstract: A novel sorghum variety designated 2PJPR62R and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a plant comprise crossing sorghum variety 2PJPR62R with another plant. Sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing sorghum variety 2PJPR62R with another plant are described. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 2PJPR62R include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation. Hybrid sorghum seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing the sorghum variety 2PJPR62R or a locus conversion of 2PJPR62R with another sorghum variety are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Maria Laura Mayor
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Patent number: 11019783Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH47WJ and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH47WJ with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH47WJ through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH47WJ or a locus conversion of PH47WJ with another maize variety.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Benoit Revol
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Patent number: 11019784Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X03N341 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X03N341 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X03N341 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X03N341, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X03N341 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X03N341 and methods of using maize variety X03N341 are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventors: Brian Douglas De Vries, David B Fischer, Joseph Kevin Gogerty, Edwin Michael Grote, Christopher Cole Rasmussen, Eric Scott Riedeman, Matthew David Smalley
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Patent number: 11019785Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X13N233 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13N233 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13N233 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13N233, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13N233 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13N233 and methods of using maize variety X13N233 are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventors: Nicholas Adam Crowley, Charles Thomas Cunnyngham, Mark Jacob Gadlage, Thomas Russell Henry, Randall Newton Holley, Jill Renee Lennon, Nathan Brook O'Berry, Daniel Joseph Pohl, Jennifer Ann Steinke
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Patent number: 11019786Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X13N244 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13N244 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13N244 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13N244, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13N244 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13N244 and methods of using maize variety X13N244 are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventors: Travis J Lee, Brandon Michael Wardyn
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Patent number: 11019787Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072951. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072951. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072951 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072951 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Christiana E. Wiebbecke
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Patent number: 11019788Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072980. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072980. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072980 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072980 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Christiana E. Wiebbecke
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Patent number: 11019789Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073534. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073534. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073534 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073534 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Christiana E. Wiebbecke
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Patent number: 11019790Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073304. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073304. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073304 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073304 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Philip A. Owen
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Patent number: 11019791Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 89242215 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 89242215, to the plants of soybean cultivar 89242215, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 89242215, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 89242215. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 89242215. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 89242215, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 89242215 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: M.S. Technologies, L.L.C.Inventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 11019792Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PBHR27 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PBHR27, cells from soybean variety 5PBHR27, plants of soybean 5PBHR27, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PBHR27. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PBHR27 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PBHR27, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PBHR27, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PBHR27. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PBHR27 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Zachary Phillip Shearin
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Patent number: 11019793Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated GF34657602 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety GF34657602, cells from soybean variety GF34657602, plants of soybean GF34657602, and plant parts of soybean variety GF34657602. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety GF34657602 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety GF34657602, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety GF34657602, and methods of characterizing soybean variety GF34657602. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety GF34657602 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INC.Inventor: Douglas P Sprehe
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Patent number: 11019794Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated OT34675955 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety OT34675955, cells from soybean variety OT34675955, plants of soybean OT34675955, and plant parts of soybean variety OT34675955. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety OT34675955 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety OT34675955, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety OT34675955, and methods of characterizing soybean variety OT34675955. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety OT34675955 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INC.Inventor: Hunt B Wiley
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Patent number: 11019795Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated AV42705183 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety AV42705183, cells from soybean variety AV42705183, plants of soybean AV42705183, and plant parts of soybean variety AV42705183. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety AV42705183 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety AV42705183, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety AV42705183, and methods of characterizing soybean variety AV42705183. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety AV42705183 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INC.Inventors: Julian M Lenis, Robert Moore, Walter Daniel Santone, Hunt B Wiley
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Patent number: 11019796Abstract: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 18R411B3XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 18R411B3XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 18R411B3XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 18R411B3XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Dawn E Fraser, Darren G Jones
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Patent number: 11019797Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid DRPB0743 and pepper line SBOXZ12-0049. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid DRPB0743 and pepper line SBOXZ12-0049 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid pepper hybrid DRPB0743 and pepper line SBOXZ12-0049 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Christof Stoll
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Patent number: 11019798Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line CHI-HE17-3439. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line CHI-HE17-3439 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line CHI-HE17-3439 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Tomás Lomas Cano
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Patent number: 11019799Abstract: In one aspect, a disposable liner for a litter box is provided. The liner includes a base comprising a first end edge, a second end edge opposite the first end edge, a first seam edge, and a second seam edge opposite the first seam edge. The first seam edge and the second seam edge extend between the first end edge and the second end edge. The liner also includes a first side wall coupled to the base at the first end edge, a second side wall coupled to the base at the second end edge, a first end wall coupled to the base at the first seam edge, and a second end wall coupled to the base at the second seam edge. The first end wall comprises an integrally formed first gusset, and the second end wall comprises an integrally formed second gusset.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Alfa-Pet, Inc.Inventor: Martin A. Johnes
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Patent number: 11019800Abstract: A system and method for treating or processing granular absorbent while the granular absorbent is being transported in a fluid stream that preferably is a stream of air. The system includes a pneumatic conveyor with a conduit that draws pellets exiting an extruder into the conduit drying the pellets as they are transported through the conduit. Material can be introduced that dries, coats or otherwise treats the pellets while the pellets are transported through the conduit. Coating material, e.g., powdered bentonite can coat and also dry pellets during transport. A conduit can have inner pellet treating surface that abrades pellets transported through the conduit producing smaller fines that can be packaged with pellets forming a granular absorbent product that forms clumps on top that extend generally horizontally.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Pioneer Pet Products, LLCInventor: John M. Lipscomb
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Patent number: 11019801Abstract: A voluntary milking system and method for treating dairy livestock having fore legs and hind legs, wherein the system comprises milking stalls voluntarily accessible to animals that are milked by mobile units configured to travel between the fore and hind legs of the animal.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.Inventors: Niv Pinsky, Oren Drori, Doron Shalem
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Patent number: 11019802Abstract: An agricultural machine for transportation and distribution of bulk products, including a tank, which is mounted on a rolling chassis, which is provided with at least one sealable opening situated at the level of the bottom of the tank and which is equipped with at least one mobile device performing scraping of the bottom and favoring ejection of the product. An agricultural machine wherein the mobile device or each mobile device is mounted to rotate around a vertical shaft or axis, perpendicular relative to the plane of the bottom and including at least two separate radial arms, distributed around the axis and sweeping over substantially the entire surface of the bottom, wherein the thickness or the height of each arm relative to the bottom is smaller than the height of the lateral opening or of each lateral opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: KUHN-AUDUREAU SAInventors: Florent Mignon, Benoit Sorin
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Patent number: 11019803Abstract: An animal cleaning device for grooming an animal. The animal cleaning device may include a top portion that includes a plurality of actuators and a bottom portion affixed to the top portion. The bottom portion may include a suction vent, a blow vent, a heated airflow vent, a rotating brush, and a formulation dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: KIMOS CORPInventors: Kamel A. Takla, Robert S. Hudson
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Patent number: 11019804Abstract: A system and method for automatically delivering a substance to an animal including a positioning system that positions each animal singularly, a sensor that detects the location of a predetermined targeted area on the animal and an image processor. The system further includes a delivery device having a plurality of delivery outlets for delivering a substance to the targeted area. The sensor, image processor and delivery device are in communication with a computer processor. The sensor activates the image processor which takes at least one image of the animal positioned singularly. The image is communicated to the computer processor and analyzed. The computer processor activates the delivery outlet proximate the predetermined target area on the animal which delivers an effective dosage of substance to the predetermined targeted area.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Applied LifeSciences & Systems, LLCInventor: Ramin Karimpour
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Patent number: 11019805Abstract: A system for monitoring the welfare of livestock in a shed, the system including a plurality of sensors for measuring ambient conditions in the shed; a robot, adapted to move through the shed; a processing engine and a memory operatively associated with the processing engine. The robot includes at least two cameras, one of which is a thermal camera. The processing engine is operatively associated with the robot and the plurality of sensors for receiving data recorded by the robot and the plurality of sensors, the recorded data including measurements of ambient conditions in the shed; and images from the at two cameras.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: FARM ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SLInventors: Jorg Hartung, Heiner Lehr, Daniel Roses Domenech
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Patent number: 11019806Abstract: The invention provides a system and a method for determining a physiological condition of a ruminant. The system comprises a sensor unit and a calculating unit. The sensor unit generates a stream of measuring data that are indicative of a movement condition of the ruminant. The calculating unit uses a neural network for calculating a stream of condition data from the stream of measuring data. The condition data indicate a physiological condition of the ruminant.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: N.V. NEDERLANDSCHE APPARATENFABRIEK NEDAPInventor: Jeroen Martin van Dijk
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Patent number: 11019807Abstract: A look-up table is defined by at least one reference point, and rows and columns that are offset from the reference. The table rows and columns correspond to ordinate and abscissa data points representing geographic locations. Each data point offset in the table corresponds to a predefined geographic offset. The look-up table contains machine-stored values at each table location, with each value representing a particular one of several guidance zones. Each guidance zone is associated with behavioral guidance provided to an animal Real-time determination of a current guidance zone is made by first determining present location. The corresponding table location is identified by calculating latitudinal and longitudinal offsets from a reference point, and using these offsets as the two indices to access a double-indexed array. The offsets are selectively subjected to a scalar conversion to accommodate large land areas while limiting the amount of memory required to store the table.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: GPSip, Inc.Inventors: Rodney P. Landers, Kevin L. Nieuwsma, Chad R. James, Patrick J. Krekelberg
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Patent number: 11019808Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for tracking animals, which may include production animals as well as pets. The system and method may comprise a tag system that is attached to an animal that generally has at least a near-field-communication (NFC) tag. The tag system comprises at least an NFC tag and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. For NFC tags, such tags may be read with a portable computing device, such as a mobile telephone running NFC reader application software. The phone may communicate with a communications network and ultimately a computer server in order to relay information received from a respective electronic tag. The electronic tags may be fastened, embedded, or ingested by an animal. The electronic tags may be part of a mechanical coupling. Each mechanical coupling may comprise a different structure depending on the whether the tags are fastened to, embedded in, or ingested by the animal.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM ANIMAL HEALTH USA INC.Inventors: Pierre-Emmanuel Deliou, Michael Edward Hay Hutton
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Patent number: 11019809Abstract: The present invention generally relates to genetically modified swine wherein at least one allele of a SIGLEC1 gene has been inactivated and/or at least one allele of a CD163 gene has been inactivated. Genetically modified swine having both alleles of the SIGLEC1 gene and/or both alleles CD163 gene inactivated are resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). Methods for producing such transgenic swine are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: Randall S. Prather, Kevin D. Wells, Kristin M. Whitworth
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Patent number: 11019810Abstract: Genetically modified non-human animals and methods and compositions for making and using the same are provided, wherein the genetic modification comprises a humanization of an endogenous signal-regulatory protein gene, in particular a humanization of a SIRP? gene. Genetically modified mice are described, including mice that express a human or humanized SIRP? protein from an endogenous SIRP? locus.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.Inventors: Andrew J. Murphy, O. Gavin Thurston, Bindu Varghese, Cagan Gurer
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Patent number: 11019811Abstract: An artificial fishing lure that has a sleeve extending over the lure to create a water resistant cavity. Wherein the sleeve is made to elastically constrict around at least the head to hold the sleeve thereto. The sleeve may have a diving lip mounted to the front to regulate the depth of the lure while being pulled through the water. The sleeve may have at least one appendage mounted thereto. The cavity may be used to place fish scent attractant material, weights, air or other desirable material therein. At least one hole may be mounted through the circumscribing wall in a location juxtaposing the cavity. The sleeve may also contain at least one partition positioned in the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Stephen Partridge
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Patent number: 11019812Abstract: A modular tackle container includes a bucket having a sidewall. The sidewall has an inner wall, an outer wall, and a top surface connecting the inner wall and the outer wall. A plurality of brackets are configured to be removably supported on the top of the sidewall. Each of the plurality of brackets has an outer portion configured to face the outer wall, a top portion configured to engage the top surface, and an inner portion configured to face the inner wall. The inner portion includes a generally tee-shaped support. A holder is releasably attachable to the tee-shaped support. The holder has a receiver configured to slide onto the tee-shaped support such that the tee-shaped support vertically supports the holder.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: David Glassberg
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Patent number: 11019813Abstract: A termite detection device, system, and method. The device includes a housing and bait strip. A first circuit board and detection switch are on the bait strip. A deep hole with a non-through bottom is in the bait strip. A supporting body capable of ascending/descending is in the deep hole for supporting a detected body. The first circuit board is electrically connected to the switch, to determine on/off of the switch. The system includes the termite detection device, a detector, and a database. The device sends a signal of the switch to the database via the detector. In the method, the detector triggers the termite detection device or the termite detection device is automatically triggered. The first circuit board determines on/off of the switch, and sends to the database via the detector for processing/storage. The switch is in a power-off state when no detection is performed.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: ZHEJIANG DEKAN ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junfeng Shen, Weiqiang Shen, Hanmin Ji, Meifen Fei
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Patent number: 11019814Abstract: A system for controlling insects, comprising a first lure module for attracting insects to eat a toxicant and a second cooling module for lowing environmental temperature to a temperature lethal to insects but above the ice crystallization of fruit. The lure comprises: wax; oil; ethyl methyl eugenol or other suitable attractant; and spinosad or other suitable toxicant.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Morton Edward Bassan, Jr.
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Patent number: 11019815Abstract: A remote game call system may include a game call and an actuator for remotely actuating the game call.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Samuel D. Cagle
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Patent number: 11019816Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing microparticles which comprise cinmethylin and a polymeric material which surrounds or embeds cinmethylin, and at least one herbicide different from cinmethylin. The invention further relates to a method for preparing such compositions and the use of such compositions for controlling undesired vegetation.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.Inventors: Henning Urch, Martina Schmitt, Klaus Kolb, Diana Franz, Evgueni Klimov, Helmut Kraus
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Patent number: 11019817Abstract: Disclosed is a novel antimicrobial means which is effective against various types of fungi including pathogenic true fungi and phytopathogenic filamentous fungi. An antimicrobial agent against fungi according to the present invention comprises, as an effective ingredient, cyanoacrylate polymer particles having an average particle diameter of less than 1000 nm, which particles contain at least one selected from the group consisting of amino acids, amino acid derivatives, oligomers and polymers thereof, saccharides and polysorbates, and contain no antimicrobial active ingredient effective against the fungi. The antimicrobial agent is particularly useful as a control agent against plant diseases caused by filamentous fungi.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Shoichi Shirotake
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Patent number: 11019818Abstract: This disclosure relates, in part, to compounds of Formula 1 (including all stereoisomers), N-oxides of such compounds, and salts of such compounds and N-oxides: wherein L, Y1, R1, J, Q1, R7, Y2, R9 and Q2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: FMC CorporationInventor: Matthew James Campbell
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Patent number: 11019819Abstract: Provided is a process for preparing an alcoholic solution of a polyvinylpyridine polymer having biocidal and biocompatibility properties. The alcoholic solution is ready-to-graft in order to confer biocidal properties to various surfaces and to prevent biofilm formation on such surfaces. Also provided are methods of using the alcoholic solution, such as for controlling the growth of bacteria, fungi and/or viruses, and/or for preventing digestion of wood cellulose by wood-boring insects.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: DEBOGY MOLECULAR, INC.Inventors: Houssam Bouloussa, Othman Bouloussa
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Patent number: 11019820Abstract: Substituted pyrimidinium compounds of the general formula (I) and their uses for combating animal pests The present invention relates to substituted pyrimidinium compounds of formula (I), to the stereoisomers, salts, tautomers and N-oxides thereof and to compositions comprising such compounds. The invention also relates to methods and uses of these substituted pyrimidinium compounds and of compositions thereof, for combating and controlling animal pests. Furthermore the invention relates also to pesticidal methods of applying such substituted pyrimidinium compounds. The substituted pyrimidinium compounds of the present invention are defined by the following general formula (I): wherein X, Y, Z, R1, R2, A and Het are defined as in the description.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Arun Narine, Nina Gertrud Bandur, Joachim Dickhaut, Swetlana Derksen, Raffael Koller, Wolfgang Von Deyn, Jean-Yves Wach, Deborah L. Culbertson
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Patent number: 11019821Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) in which Aa, Ab, Ac, Ad, Q, R1 and n have the definitions given above, to their use as acaricides and/or insecticides for controlling animal pests and to processes and intermediates for their preparation.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ruediger Fischer, Dominik Hager, Laura Hoffmeister, Matthieu Willot, Kerstin Ilg, Ulrich Goergens, Andreas Turberg
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Patent number: 11019822Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods for reducing foliar chloroplast movement in plants and trees to enhance CO2 trapping (carbon capture) from the air while naturally increasing the oxygen in the atmosphere and diluting the concentration of greenhouse gasses. Also provided are methods for measuring foliar chloroplast avoidance in response to treatments designed to reduce avoidance.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: CO2 Solved, LLCInventors: George Baker, Sheryl S. Webb, Clifford Fairchild
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Patent number: 11019823Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for controlling surface-inhabiting pests in an aquatic system, in particular cyanobacteria and harmful algal blooms (HABs), comprising spreading on the surface of the aquatic system a buoyant composition comprising a water disinfectant, preferably an oxidizing compound, and a floating agent. The invention further relates to compositions and methods for their preparation and use.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SHA'KED MICROBIAL SOLUTIONS LTD.Inventors: Sergei Braun, Moshe Harel
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Patent number: 11019824Abstract: A biocide resin composition that includes one or more solutions of selected melamine-formaldehyde, urea-formaldehyde, phenol-formaldehyde, melamine-urea-formaldehyde, and phenolic resins, and more than one copper salt soluble in aqueous systems and melamine-formaldehyde, urea-formaldehyde, and phenolic solutions. Copper salts are of the copper citrate, copper lysinate, copper gluconate, copper salicylate, copper phthalocyanine, copper chelate, copper oxalate, copper acetate, copper methionine, copper tartrate, copper glycinate, copper picolinate, copper aspartate, ammoniacal copper complexes, EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid)-copper complexes, copper glycolate, copper glycerate, copper ascorbate type and, in general, copper salts of the organic type, R—Cu, R1-Cu—R2, where R, R1, and R2 can be alkyl chains (C3-C18) with one or more acid, aldehyde, ester, ether, hydroxyls, amino, or others groups in its structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Luis Alberto Amestica Salazar
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Patent number: 11019825Abstract: The invention provides an agrochemical composition comprising: (a) one or more fatty acids or derivatives thereof; and (b) a strain, culture, culture filtrate, spores or mycelia of a species of a fungus or oomycete, or a metabolite produced by a species of a fungus or oomycete, which strain, culture, culture filtrate, spores, mycelia or metabolite directly or indirectly (i) inhibits the growth or reproduction of plant pathogens or (ii) kills plant pathogens. Also provided is a method for controlling fungi or oomycetes at a locus, a method for promoting growth in a plant and a method for controlling nematodes at a locus.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Alpha Biopesticides LimitedInventors: Matteo Lorito, Alfeo Vecchi
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Patent number: 11019826Abstract: A chip cutting system for use in loading, cutting, and packaging stacks of tortillas. The chip cutting system can include a loader, a vertical loading system, a processing line, a plurality of cutting stations, a sleeving area, an inversion portion, and an output portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: ASA Food Equipment, Inc.Inventors: Peter Alan Scherz, Kyle Alan Armstrong, Christopher Michael Armstrong
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Patent number: 11019827Abstract: A system and method for creating an oxidation reduction potential (ORP) in water and for reducing the surface tension of the water for the microbiological decontamination of food animal carcasses. A method is also described for the microbiological decontamination of beef trimmings.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Daniel W. Lynn
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Patent number: 11019828Abstract: A portable game hoist assembly includes a plurality of modular sections that is each removably coupled together to define a stand that extends vertically from a support surface. The stand has a height at least 8.0 feet to facilitate a deer or other similarly sized animal to be suspended beneath the stand for butchering. A winch is rotatably coupled to a respective one of the modular sections and a pulley is coupled to a respective one of the modular sections. The pulley is spaced upwardly from the support surface when the stand is assembled. A cable is wrapped around the winch and the cable extends around the pulley. A distal end of the cable can lift the game when the winch is rotated in the first direction. A lighting unit is coupled to the modular sections to illuminate the game for butchering.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventor: Richard Summerfield