ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,304, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ceres Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof" was invented by Richard Schneeberger (Carlsbad, Calif.), Emilio Margolles-Clark (Miami), Tatiana Tatarinova (Los Angeles), Yiwen Fang (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Nickolai Alexandrov (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Leonard Medrano (Azusa, Calif.), Roger Pennell (Malibu, Calif.), Noah Theiss (Tucson, Ariz.), Danielle Grizard (Moorpark, Calif.), Shauna J. Davis (College Station, Texas), Dennis Robles (Chatsworth, Calif.) and Michael Portereiko (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Th...