ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,534, issued on June 24, was assigned to NewLeaf Symbiotics Inc. (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for controlling corn rootworm" was invented by Marcus Jones (St. Louis) and Gregg Bogosian (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions comprising Corn Rootworm (CRW)-active Methylobacterium sp., methods for controlling CRW, and methods of making the compositions. Also provided are isolated CRW-active Methylobacterium sp."

The patent was filed on Dec. 21, 2020, under Application No. 17/129,004.

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