US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on March 25 for "Engineered pesticidal proteins and methods of controlling plant pests" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,374, issued on March 25, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Engineered pesticidal proteins and methods of controlling plant pests" was invented by Hyunsook S. Chae (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides nucleic acids, polypeptides, transgenic plants, compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity (e.g., insecticidal activity) to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds. Nucleic acids encoding the insecticidal proteins can be used to transform prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the insecticidal proteins. The recombinant orga...