ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,446, issued on June 24, was assigned to BASF AGRO B.V. (Arnhem, Netherlands).
"Plants having increased tolerance to herbicides" was invented by Raphael Aponte (Mannheim, Germany), Stefan Tresch (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Dario Massa (Limburgerhof, Germany), Tobias Seiser (Mannheim, Germany) and Thomas Mietzner (Annweiler, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutat...