Intellectual Property Office

Patents Issued

Biotechnology

The following patents were issued recently to Penn State faculty or staff members and are now available for licensing. Click on the patent number for a link to the patent document, including an abstract.

1999

  • US 5,856,157 ACP Fatty Acid Desaturase and Gene Thereof
  • US 5,867,402 Computational Analysis of Nucleic Acid Information and Defines Binding Sites
  • US 5,959,082 Proteins Catalyzing the Extension of Plant Cells
  • US 5,990,283 Proteins Catalyzing the Extension of Plant Cells

2000

  • US 6,103,483 Molecule Involved In Binding Of Sperm To Egg Surfaces And Procedures For Use Of This Molecule To Enhance Or Decrease Potential Fertility
  • US 6,150,587 Method And Tissue Culture Media For Inducing Somatic Embryogenesis, Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation And Efficient Regeneration Of Cacao Plants

2001

  • US 6,187,585 Oligonucleotide Inhibition of Epidermal Growth Factor
  • US 6,197,587 Somatic Embryogenesis and Plant Propagation of Cacao Using Thidiazuron and 2,4-D
  • US 6,214,607 Process for Treating Perchlorate Contaiminated Drinking Water
  • US 6,221,630 A High Copy Plasmid Expressing the GAL3-GAL80-GAL43-Component Switch and TBP Gene Useful for Regulatable High Level Production of Polypeptides Expressed from GAL4 Protein-Activated GAL Gene Promoters in Yeast
  • US 6,245,555 Low Capital Investment Aseptic Bioreactor System
  • US 6,255,466 Molecular Cloning, Isolation and Sequencing of the Cumcumber Exansin-28 (S1) Gene
  • US 6,271,359 Tissue-Specific and Pathogen-Specific Toxic Agents and Ribozymes
  • US 6,319,497 2.2N Myco Compound for Controlling Various Bacteria and Fungi
  • US 6,326,346 Stain Removing Compositions Containing Particular Isolated and Pure Proteolytic Enzymes
  • US 6,326,470 Proteins to Disrupt Hydrogen-Bonding Between Natural and Synthetic Polymers

2002

  • US 6,413,751 Processive DNA Adenine Methyltranferases and Uses Thereof
  • US 6,492,168 Novel Methyltransferase Gene and Enzyme

2003

  • US 6,586,256 A New Framework for Cooperative Chemical Sensors
  • US 6,506,568 McSNP: Genotyping Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Using Restriction Enzymes & Melting Curve Analysis
  • US 6,576,232 Mutagenesis of Interleukin 13 Which Leads to a More Discriminate Recognition of its Receptor on Cancer Cells
  • US 6,630,576 Mutagenesis of Interleukin 13 Which Leads to a More Discriminate Recognition of its Receptor on Cancer Cells
  • US 6,635,242 A Broad Spectrum Microbicide Against Enveloped and Non-enveloped Viruses

2004

  • US 6,803,193 A Simple novel in vivo Yeast Screen for Alterations in Flux Through the Sterol Biosynthesis Pathway
  • US 6,693,112 Phenoxymethylquinoxalinone Compounds, Compositions and Methods for Enhancing Chemotherapy
  • US 6,737,397 Opioid Growth Factor and Cancer
  • US 6,689,357 2.2N Myco Compound for Controlling Various Bacteria and Fungi
  • US 6,682,738 A New Family of Expansin Genes and Proteins

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