US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on Dec. 16 for "Methods and compositions for the introduction and regulated expression of genes in plants" (Iowa, Delaware, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,628, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. and CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC.

"Methods and compositions for the introduction and regulated expression of genes in plants" was invented by William James Gordon-Kamm (Urbandale, Iowa), Theodore M Klein (Wilmington, Del.), Keith S Lowe (Johnston, Iowa), Kevin E McBride (Davis, Calif.), Christopher J Scelonge (Ankeny, Iowa) and Ning Wang (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for the introduction and the regulated expression of genes in plants. Compositions include promoter constructs that provide a level of activity us...