US Patent Issued to TEA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, GUANGDONG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES on Sept. 9 for "Molecular marker combination linked to quantitative traits of tea plant caffeine content" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,465, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TEA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, GUANGDONG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Guangdong, China).

"Molecular marker combination linked to quantitative traits of tea plant caffeine content" was invented by Hualing Wu (Guangdong, China), Kaixing Fang (Guangdong, China), Hongjian Li (Guangdong, China), Xiaohui Jiang (Guangdong, China), Dandan Qin (Guangdong, China), Qiushuang Wang (Guangdong, China), Chendong Pan (Guangdong, China) and Bo Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molecular marker combination linked to quantitative traits of tea plant caffeine content, including a SNP site 1, a S...