ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,342, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Pivot Bio Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).
"Methods and compositions for improving plant traits" was invented by Karsten Temme (Oakland, Calif.), Alvin Tamsir (San Francisco), Sarah Bloch (Emeryville, Calif.), Rosemary Clark (Berkeley, Calif.) and Emily Tung (Millbrae, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods of increasing nitrogen fixation in a non-leguminous plant. The methods can comprise exposing the plant to a plurality of bacteria. Each member of the plurality comprises one or more genetic variations introduced into one or more genes or non-coding polynucleotides of the...