ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,039, issued on July 15, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).
"Bacterial quantitative trait-locus mapping" was invented by Joshua K. Michener (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Daniel A. Jacobson (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Delyana Vasileva (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Jared Streich (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods for performing quantitative-trait loci (QTL) analysis in bacteria. The methods of the instant disclosure utilize multiple rounds of protoplast fusion-induced genomic recombination to break genetic linkages in bacterial genomes. The methods of the instant disclosure allow determining which ...