US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services, University of Virginia Patent Foundation on July 8 for "Tissue-specific promoters in plants" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,809, issued on July 8, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.) and University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Tissue-specific promoters in plants" was invented by Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.), Yanxin Shen (Henrico, Va.), Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.), Michael Paul Timko (Charlottesville, Va.) and Roel Rabara (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods related to tissue-specific promoters and their uses in plants, including tobacco and cannabis. The provided trichome-specific promoters enable the expression of hete...