US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 20 for "Transgenic plants with increased photosynthesis efficiency and growth" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,064, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Transgenic plants with increased photosynthesis efficiency and growth" was invented by Stephen P. Long (Urbana, Ill.), Johannes Kromdijk (Cambridge, Great Britain), Katarzyna Glowacka (Lincoln, Neb.), Krishna K. Niyogi (Oakland, Calif.), Laurie Beth Leonelli (Oakland, Calif.) and Stephane T. Gabilly (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a transgenic plant comprising one or more nucleotide sequences encoding polypept...