ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,179, issued on May 20, was assigned to NUSEED NUTRITIONAL US INC. (West Sacramento, Calif.).

"Transgenic land plants that express a polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase seed specifically with cytosolic localization" was invented by Meghna Malik (Saskatoon, Canada), Nii Patterson (Saskatoon, Canada), Jihong Tang (West Roxbury, Mass.), Matthew Martino (Cortland, N.Y.), Nirmala Sharma (Saskatoon, Canada), Oliver P. Peoples (Arlington, Mass.), Kristi D. Snell (Belmont, Mass.) and Frank Anthony Skraly (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transgenic land plant that expresses a polyhydroxy alkanoate synthase seed specifically, with cyto...