US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Aug. 11 for "Composition and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having increased phenylalanine and reduced tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs)" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,872, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Composition and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having increased phenylalanine and reduced tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs)" was invented by Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.), Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Va.), James Strickland (Richmond, Va.) and Yanxin Shen (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides approaches for reducing tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) in tobacco. Some of these approaches include genetically engineering tobacco plants to increase one or more antioxidants, incre...