US Patent Issued to HERITABLE AGRICULTURE on March 25 for "Machine learning driven gene discovery and gene editing in plants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,938, issued on March 25, was assigned to HERITABLE AGRICULTURE INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Machine learning driven gene discovery and gene editing in plants" was invented by Bradley Zamft (Mountain View, Calif.), Vikash Singh (Los Angeles), Mathias Voges (Cupertino, Calif.) and Thong Nguyen (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to leveraging explainable machine learning methods and feature importance mechanisms as a mechanism for gene discovery and furthermore leveraging the outputs of the gene discovery to recommend ideal gene expression profiles and the requisite genome edits that are c...