US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on Nov. 18 for "Glycine regulatory elements and uses thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,565, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Glycine regulatory elements and uses thereof" was invented by Ailing Zhou (Durham, N.C.), Jonathan Cohn (Durham, N.C.), Michele Susan Yarnall (Durham, N.C.), Yuejin Sun (Durham, N.C.), Zhongying Chen (Durham, N.C.), Qiudeng Que (Durham, N.C.) and Yinping Lucy Qin (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are regulatory elements, such as promoters and terminators, derived or obtained from various Glycine species. Such regulatory elements are useful for expression cassettes for plants, such as soybean. Such expression cassettes...