US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 19 for "Genetically modified nitrogen fixing bacteria and uses thereof" (Washington, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,627, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.) and WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (Pullman, Wash.).

"Genetically modified nitrogen fixing bacteria and uses thereof" was invented by John Peters (Pullman, Wash.), Florence Mus (Pullman, Wash.), Jean-Michel Ane (Madison, Wis.) and Devanshi Khokhani (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A genetically modified bacterium for excreting fixed nitrogen (in the form of ammonia) is disclosed. The bacterium can be made by deleting at least a portion of the nifL gene of a diazotrophic Gamma-proteobacterium, and inserting a promoter sequence into t...