ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,634, issued on April 29, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Iowa) and Corteva AgriScience LLC (Ind.).
"Regulatory sequences for modulating transgene expression in plants" was invented by Scott Diehn (West Des Moines, Iowa), Ajit Nott (Johnston, Iowa), David Selinger (Hockessin, Del.), Carl Simmons (Des Moines, Iowa), Priyanka Bhyri (Johnston, Iowa) and Venkata S Tavva (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences, specifically introns that act as enhancers of gene expression, the promoter and terminator sequences endogenously associated with these intron...