ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,686, issued on March 25, was assigned to Weedout Ltd. (Nes Ziona, Israel).
"Compositions, kits and methods for controlling weed" was invented by Orly Noivirt-Brik (Givataim, Israel) and Efrat Lidor-Nili (Nes Ziona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing pollen that reduces fitness of at least one weed species of interest is provided. The method comprises treating the pollen of plants of a weed species of interest with an irradiation regimen selected from the group consisting of: (i) X-ray radiation at an irradiation dose of 10-1600 Gy; (ii) gamma radiation at an irradiation dose of 10-2000 Gy; (iii) particle rad...