Inventor · Cary, NC, US

Nalini M. Desai

36Patents
11h-index
67Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 25, 1992 → Apr 24, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6403865B1 Method of producing transgenic maize using direct transformation of commercially important genotypes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 123 Expired
US5625136A Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced insecticidal activity in maize Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Expired
US5877012A Class of proteins for the control of plant pests Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Expired
US6107279A Class of proteins for the control of plant pests Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US6137033A Class of proteins for the control of plant pests Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US6320100A Synthetic DNA sequences having enhanced insecticidal activity in maize Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US7923602B2 AXMI-031, AXMI-039, AXMI-040 and AXMI-049, a family of novel delta endotoxin genes and methods for their use Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US5849870A Pesticidal proteins and strains Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US6531648B1 Grain processing method and transgenic plants useful therein Chemistry; Metallurgy 19 Expired
US6121014A Method for producing a plant-optimized nucleic acid coding sequence Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US5770696A Auxiliary proteins for enhancing the insecticidal activity of pesticidal proteins Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US6429360B1 Plant pest control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US5889174A Nucleotide sequences encoding pesticidal proteins Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US5840868A Pesticidal proteins and strains Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US5866326A Method for isolating vegetative insecticidal protein genes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US6075185A Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced insecticidal activity in maize Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US5859336A Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced activity in maize Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US8829279B2 Family of pesticidal proteins and methods for their use Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US5872212A Pesticidal proteins and strains Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US6051760A Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced insecticidal activity in maize Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US6720488B2 Transgenic maize seed and method for controlling insect pests Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US8575425B2 AXMI-205 pesticidal gene and methods for its use Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US6278041A Peroxidase gene sequences Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US9310354B2 Methods of predicting crop yield using metabolic profiling Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US6018104A Nucleic acid promoter fragment isolated from a plant tryptophan synthase alpha subunit (trpA) gene Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.