US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur F6rderung der Wissenschaften, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf on Aug. 5 for "Method for the production of plants with altered photorespiration and improved CO 2 fixation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,570, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur F6rderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (Munich) and Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for the production of plants with altered photorespiration and improved CO 2 fixation" was invented by Lennart Schada Von Borzyskowski (Marburg, Germany), Tobias Jurgen Erb (Marburg, Germany), Andreas Paul Michael Weber (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Marc-Sven Roll (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to transgenic plants with altered photorespiration and improved CO2 fixation as well as a method of producing said t...