US Patent Issued to GREENVENUS on July 1 for "Control of phenotype in plants" (California, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,852, issued on July 1, was assigned to GREENVENUS LLC (Davis, Calif.).

"Control of phenotype in plants" was invented by Sekhar Boddupalli (Davis, Calif.), Andrey Boukharov (Melrose, Mass.), Rio Stamler (Davis, Calif.), Zhongsen Li (Hockessin, Del.), Arianne Tremblay (Davis, Calif.), Stephen Schauer (Rockville, Md.), Shiv B. Tiwari (San Jose, Calif.) and John Salmeron (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a compositions and methods for controlling phenotypic traits in plants. Genes of interest are placed under the control of a gene switch to allow inducible control or expression of a gene of interest...