US Patent Issued to Carlsberg on Sept. 30 for "Method to screen for a mutant within a population of organisms by applying a pooling and splitting approach" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,678, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Carlsberg A/S (Copenhagen V, Denmark).

"Method to screen for a mutant within a population of organisms by applying a pooling and splitting approach" was invented by Toni Wendt (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Ole Olsen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Soren Knudsen (Malov, Denmark), Hanne Cecille Thomsen (Valby, Denmark), Birgitte Skadhauge (Birkerod, Denmark), Magnus Wohlfahrt Rasmussen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Massimiliano Carciofi (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Alexander Striebeck (Frederiksberg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In traditional plant breeding approaches, chemical mutagenesis may be utilized ...