US Patent Issued to Brookhaven Science Associates on Sept. 16 for "Modified form of oleosin that when expressed in plants leads to increased triacylglycerol (oil) accumulation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,840, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Brookhaven Science Associates LLC (Upton, N.Y.).

"Modified form of oleosin that when expressed in plants leads to increased triacylglycerol (oil) accumulation" was invented by John Shanklin (Shoreham, N.Y.) and Sanket P. Anaokar (Carle Place, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides mutant or variant oleosin polypeptides having one or more amino acid substitutions, particularly one or more arginine substitution for lysine, and having one or more amino acid deletions. The mutant oleosin polypeptides provide for higher triacylglycerol compared to wild type oleosin, including w...