ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,010, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Indianapolis).

"Plant terminator sequences" was invented by Priyanka Bhyri (Johnston, Iowa), Nandini Krishnamurthy (Grimes, Iowa), Eswar Narayanan (Grimes, Iowa), Ajit Nott (Johnston, Iowa) and Rinku Ranjan Sarangi (Andhra Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences, specifically transcription terminator sequences. Plant transcription terminator sequences are described herein. Methods for identifying novel plant transcription terminator sequences that can terminate transcription in one orientation or in ...