US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on May 13 for "Optimized plant expression systems" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,443, issued on May 13, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Optimized plant expression systems" was invented by Hugh Mason (Phoenix), Mary Pardhe (Phoenix) and Andrew Diamos (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved plant transient expression systems using optimized geminiviral vectors that efficiently produce heteromultimeric proteins are described herein. Examples of high yields are shown herein, including two, three, or four fluorescent proteins coexpressed simultaneously. Various antibodies were produced using the optimized vectors with special focus give...