US Patent Issued to BASF Agricultural Solutions US on May 20 for "HPPD variants and methods of use" (German, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,181, issued on May 20, was assigned to BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"HPPD variants and methods of use" was invented by Fabien Poree (Lyons, France), Bernd Laber (Idstein, Germany), Gudrun Lange (Kelkheim, Germany), Manuel Dubald (Raleigh, N.C.) and Roxanne Armstrong (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, HPPD enzymes and plants containing them showing a full tolerance against several classes of HPPD-inhibitors are described.A set of HPPD enzymes have been designed which have either no or only a significantly reduced affinity to HPPD inhibitors and, at the same time, ...