ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,785, issued on June 17, was assigned to Core Intellectual Properties Holdings LLC (Goodyear, Ariz.).

"Methods and compositions of biocontrol of plant pathogens" was invented by Luke Blotsky (Goodyear, Ariz.), Derex Q. Zellars (Goodyear, Ariz.) and Michael J. Lindsey (Goodyear, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises methods and composition for control of plant pathogens. Isolated bacteria, deposited with ATCC under the Budapest Treaty, are effective to control plant pathogens."

The patent was filed on July 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/357,888.

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