US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 17 for "Synthetic microbial community for phyllosphere application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,161, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Synthetic microbial community for phyllosphere application" was invented by Britt Koskella (Berkeley, Calif.) and Elijah Curtis P. Mehlferber (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic microbial community (SynCom) agricultural crop fertilizer composition comprises a microbial stabilizing buffer and bacterial strains configured to mimic the natural diversity of the bacterial community found in the crop phyllosphere microbiome, but at a reduced complexity, yet sufficient to effectively provide increased plant produc...