ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,214, issued on July 1.
"Microspore culture predictive model generation and use" was invented by Cristina Dal Bosco (Freiburg-Munzingen, Germany), Oleksandr Dovzhenko (Freiburg, Germany), Jon Aaron Tucker Reinders (Clive, Iowa), Maja Temerinac-Ott (Gundelfingen, Germany), Olaf Tietz (Freiburg, Germany) and Sean Walsh (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods have application to the tissue culture of plant cells, ovules and microspores. Automated imaging, automated cell tracking and predictive modeling are used to develop methods that predict the likelihood that a plant cell will develop into a desired phenotype and/...