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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jerald S Feitelson, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mycogen Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
425 34 ; 435-4 ; 435-6 ; 43525231 ; 4352525 ; 435832 ; 435834 ; 530300 ; 536 231 ; 536 2371 ;
Abstract
The subject invention concerns a means for discovery of microbes having useful activities. More specifically, the subject invention comprises the use of nematodes as the starting material for discovering novel strains of microbes such as Bacillus thuringiensis or other Bacilli. The nematodes are processed by Bacillus isolation techniques to recover the microbes.