US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Aug. 5 for "Methods and compositions for homology directed repair of double strand breaks in plant cell genomes" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,565, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Iowa).

"Methods and compositions for homology directed repair of double strand breaks in plant cell genomes" was invented by Ajith Anand (West Des Monies, Iowa), William James Gordon-Kamm (Urbandale, Iowa), Sandeep Kumar (Johnston, Iowa), Zhan-Bin Liu (Clive, Iowa) and Sergi Svitashev (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are provided for the improvement of homology-directed repair of a double strand break in a plant cell, via the use of a polynucleotide comprising sequences homologous to the target site. In some aspects, the d...