US Patent Issued to Pairwise Plants Services on July 1 for "Morphogenic regulators and methods of using the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,850, issued on July 1, was assigned to Pairwise Plants Services Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Morphogenic regulators and methods of using the same" was invented by Ming Cheng (Cary, N.C.), Qingchun Shi (Cary, N.C.), Thomas J. Poorten (Durham, N.C.), Brian Charles Wilding Crawford (Cary, N.C.), Sathya Sheela Jali (Cary, N.C.), Doug Heckart (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Yongjoo Kim (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for generating transgene-free plants are described. In particular, the transgene-free plants are regenerated by transient expression of morphogenic regulators in a plant cell that is precisely edited usi...