US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Jan. 13 for "Method for increasing plant yield" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,786, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Method for increasing plant yield" was invented by Ken N. Paige (Monticello, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing yield or vigor of a plant is provided, which includes the selective removal of the plant's shoot apical meristem at a period between vegetative growth stage 1 and vegetative growth stage 2, or between vegetative growth stage 2 and vegetative growth stage 3."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/464,388.

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