US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services, University Of Virginia Patent Foundation on June 3 for "Increasing trichome density and improving transport of metabolites in plant trichomes" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,923, issued on June 3, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.) and University Of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Increasing trichome density and improving transport of metabolites in plant trichomes" 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 modification of trichome density and transport of metabolite and their uses in plants, including tobacco...