US Patent Issued to Delaware State University on March 11 for "System for rapid, robust, and efficient in vitro mass propagation of Miscanthus x giganteus" (North Carolina, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,562, issued on March 11, was assigned to Delaware State University (Dover, Del.).

"System for rapid, robust, and efficient in vitro mass propagation of Miscanthus x giganteus" was invented by Bertrand B. Hankoua (Dover, Del.) and Ayalew Ligaba Osena (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a longitudinally split immature tiller separated from a rhizome (LSITR), a cluster of multiple in vitro shoots (CMIT), a cluster of stem segments containing shoot primordia (CSSSP) and an in vitro tiller of Miscanthus x giganteus (Giant miscanthus), and their uses in propagating Miscanthus x giganteus (Giant ...