US Patent Issued to United Arab Emirates University on Aug. 12 for "Heat resistant biopesticide and a method of preparing the same" (Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,050, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to United Arab Emirates University (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Heat resistant biopesticide and a method of preparing the same" was invented by Khaled Masmoudi (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Mughair Abdul Aziz (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biopesticide composition and a method of making the composition. The biopesticide composition comprises a biopesticide in the form of an endotoxin protein, preferably a Delta-endotoxin; and a late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) protein in the form of a LEA2/dehydrin protein, wherein the ratio of endotoxin to LEA2/dehydrin p...