ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,566, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Expression modulating elements and use thereof" was invented by Shane E Abbitt (Ankeny, Iowa), Mary J Frank (Des Moines, Iowa), Thomas W Greene (West Des Moines, Iowa), Nandini Krishnamurthy (Grimes, Iowa) and Andrew Rupiper (Bondurant, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to gene expression modulation elements from plants and their use in modulating the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants. The disclosure further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cell...