US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Nov. 11 for "Plant regulatory elements and uses thereof" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,056, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plant regulatory elements and uses thereof" was invented by Ian W. Davis (Durham, N.C.), Matthew S. Marengo (Wildwood, Mo.) and Ervin D. Nagy (South Holland, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel synthetic small nuclear RNA (snRNA) promoters which are useful for CRISPR-mediated targeted gene modifications in plants. The invention also provides methods and compositions for use for the snRNA promoters driving expression of guide RNAs and non-coding RNAs for development of plants and plant cells comprising modified genomes." ...