ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,217, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).
"Enhanced recombination of genomic loci" was invented by David G. Caldwell (St. Louis) and Ervin D. Nagy (Lake Saint Louis, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods to accelerate recombination at selected genomic loci, allowing recombination to occur, and selecting events with molecular variation within the selected loci. The accelerated recombination generates novel variations in gene clusters that are present in the plant or mammalian genomes."
The patent was filed on Aug. 19, 2016, under Application No. 15/753,928.
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