US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Stanford, CA on Nov. 4 for "Inducible ammonia production from a symbiotic diazotroph, methods of creation and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,213, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Stanford, CA (Stanford, Calif.).

"Inducible ammonia production from a symbiotic diazotroph, methods of creation and uses thereof" was invented by Tim Schnabel (Stanford, Calif.) and Elizabeth Sattely (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen into bio-available nitrogenous compounds, including ammonia. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to synthetic DNA constructs encoding genes to allow release of bio-available nitrogenou...