US Patent Issued to e-nema Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologie und Biologischen Pflanzenschutz mbH on April 15 for "Heterorhabditis bacteriophora with enhanced shelf-life" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,248, issued on April 15, was assigned to e-nema Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologie und Biologischen Pflanzenschutz mbH (Schwentinental, Germany).

"Heterorhabditis bacteriophora with enhanced shelf-life" was invented by Ralf-Udo Ehlers (Schwentinental, Germany), Carlos Molina (Schwentinental, Germany), Bart Vandenbossche (Schwentinental, Germany) and Olaf Strauch (Schwentinental, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora having an enhanced longevity, comprising a first locus comprising a single nucleotide polymorphism at position 75 of the nucleotide sequence SC00004647 as depicted in S...