US Patent Issued to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on Sept. 23 for "Modulation of transgene expression in plants" (Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,522, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Ind.).

"Modulation of transgene expression in plants" was invented by Andrew J. Bowling (Zionsville, Ind.), Marcelo Ariel German (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Todd P. Glancy (Fairmount, Ind.), Sandeep Kumar (Johnston, Iowa), Heather E. Pence (Whitestown, Ind.), Andrew E. Robinson (Calvert City, Ky.), Shreedharan Sriram (Waukee, Iowa), Pohao Wang (Cary, N.C.) and Carla N. Yerkes (Crawfordsville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure concerns the use of endogenous plant RNAi machinery to preferentially or specifically reduce transgene expression. In some embodiment...