ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,921, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ceres Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
"Transgenic plants having increased biomass" was invented by Chuan-Yin Wu (Newbury Park, Calif.), Han-Suk Kim (Camarillo, Calif.), Gerard Magpantay (Canoga Park, Calif.), Fasong Zhou (Fremont, Calif.), Julissa Sosa (Northridge, Calif.), Gregory Nadzan (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Roger I. Pennell (Malibu, Calif.), Mircea Achiriloaie (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Wuyi Wang (Newbury Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and materials for modulating biomass levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass-modulating polypeptides...