US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on May 6 for "Modulating reducing sugar content in a plant (INV)" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,714, issued on May 6, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Modulating reducing sugar content in a plant (INV)" was invented by Lucien Bovet (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) and Aurore Hilfiker (Salavaux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described herein a plant cell comprising: (i) a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 81% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 5 (NtINV4-S) or at least 62% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 7 (NtINV4-T); (ii) a polypeptide encoded by the polynucleotide set forth in (i); (iii) a polypeptide comprising,...