US Patent Issued to Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Science on July 15 for "Method and use for identifying plant species based on whole genome analysis and genome editing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,213, issued on July 15, was assigned to Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Science (Beijing).

"Method and use for identifying plant species based on whole genome analysis and genome editing" was invented by Jingyuan Song (Beijing), Lijun Hao (Beijing), Wenjie Xu (Beijing), Tianyi Xin (Beijing) and Guihong Qi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying plant species based on whole genome analysis and genome editing, i.e., a GAGE, includes that screening PAM-carrying sequences from a whole genome of a plant to be identified; aligning the PAM-carrying sequences with genomes of count...