US Patent Issued to AGRESEARCH on April 15 for "Methods for improving photosynthetic organisms" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,945, issued on April 15, was assigned to AGRESEARCH Ltd. (Canterbury, New Zealand).

"Methods for improving photosynthetic organisms" was invented by Nicholas John Roberts (Feilding, New Zealand), Somrutai Winichayakul (Palmerston North, New Zealand), Zacharia D'Arcy Beechey-Gradwell (Palmerston North, New Zealand) and Luke James Cooney (Waitarere Beach, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for reducing water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) in a photosynthetic cells and plants, the method comprising the step of genetically modifying the photosynthetic cells and plants to express a modified oleosin inclu...