US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS and Co. on Aug. 5 for "Plant genome modification using guide RNA/Cas endonuclease systems and methods of use" (Wisconsin, Delaware, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,566, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa) and E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY (Wilmington, Del.).

"Plant genome modification using guide RNA/Cas endonuclease systems and methods of use" was invented by Andrew Mark Cigan (Madison, Wis.), Saverio Carl Falco (Wilmington, Del.), Huirong Gao (Johnston, Iowa), Zhongsen Li (Hockessin, Del.), Zhan-Bin Liu (Clive, Iowa), L. Aleksander Lyznik (Johnston, Iowa), Jinrui Shi (Johnston, Iowa), Sergei Svitashev (Johnston, Iowa) and Joshua K. Young (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for genome modifi...