ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,099, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PLANTARC BIO LTD. (Raanana, Israel).
"Methods of optimizing gene expression in plant" was invented by Dror Shalitin (Raanana, Israel), Noam Grimberg (Kibutz Lehavot Haviva, Israel), Daniel Bechar (Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad, Israel) and Tal Cohen (Herzelyia, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for in-planta high throughput evaluation of endogenous genetic regulatory elements of a crop plant, obtaining a nucleic acid encoding a native regulatory element of a trait-related gene, introducing one or more genetic changes in each of a plurality of copies of the native regulatory element, ...