US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, B.G Negev Technologies & Applications. Ltd. at Ben-Gurion University on April 22 for "Bacteria from medicago root nodules as plant probiotic bacteria for agriculture" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,619, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and B.G Negev Technologies & Applications. Ltd. at Ben-Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

"Bacteria from medicago root nodules as plant probiotic bacteria for agriculture" was invented by Ann M. Hirsch (Los Angeles), Pilar Martinez-Hidalgo (Los Angeles) and Drora Kaplan (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for increasing one or more plant growth characteristics in a plant are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more microbial isolates that promote plant growth. Methods include provi...