US Patent Issued to Moolec Science on July 15 for "High expression of animal heme protein in plants" (American, Argentinean, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,214, issued on July 15, was assigned to Moolec Science Ltd. (Warwick, Great Britain).

"High expression of animal heme protein in plants" was invented by Gaston Paladini (Rosario, Argentina), Martin Salinas (Funes, Argentina), Amit Dhingra (College Station, Texas), Henk Hoogenkamp (Molenhoek, Netherlands), Bruce Williamson Benavides (Moscow, Idaho), Maria Laura Malvino (Camarillo, Calif.) and Balaji Vasudevan (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of producing heme proteins in transgenic plants, plant tissues, or plant cells, as well as describing the expression of these heme proteins in see...