US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on April 15 for "Compositions and methods for genome editing in planta" (Missouri, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,944, issued on April 15, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Compositions and methods for genome editing in planta" was invented by Stanislaw Flasinski (Ballwin, Mo.), Elysia Krieger (Kirkwood, Mo.), Ervin Nagy (Lake Saint Louis, Mo.), Krishnakumar Sridharan (Cary, N.C.) and Xudong Ye (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is related to plant-optimized recombinant nucleic acids encoding Cpf1 and their use in planta. Also disclosed are compositions, expression cassettes, and plant cells comprising the recombinant nucleic acids as well as methods and kits for modifying a target sequence in a ...