US Patent Issued to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION on Sept. 16 for "Expression of nitrogenase polypeptides in plant cells" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,012, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION.

"Expression of nitrogenase polypeptides in plant cells" was invented by Robert Silas Allen (Downer, Australia), Maria Christina Gregg (Canberra, Australia), Shoko Okada (Canberra, Australia), Amratha Menon (Canberra, Australia), Charles Andrew Warden (Ngunnawal, Australia), Matthew Craig Taylor (Chifley, Australia) and Craig Christopher Wood (Dickson, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and means for producing nitrogenase polypeptides in the mitochondria of plant cells."

The patent was fil...