US Patent Issued to Indigo on Dec. 9 for "Methods of use of seed-origin endophyte populations" (Massachusetts, California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,744, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Indigo Ag Inc. (Boston).

"Methods of use of seed-origin endophyte populations" was invented by Geoffrey von Maltzahn (Boston), Richard Bailey Flavell (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Gerardo V. Toledo (Belmont, Mass.), Slavica Djonovic (Malden, Mass.), Luis Miguel Marquez (Belmont, Mass.), David Morris Johnston (Cambridge, Mass.), Yves Alain Millet (Newtonville, Mass.), Jeffrey Lyford (Hollis, N.H.), Alexander Naydich (Cambridge, Mass.) and Craig Sadowski (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an...