US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on March 31 for "Compositions and methods based on QPT engineering for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,315, issued on March 31, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Compositions and methods based on QPT engineering for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels" was invented by Dong Qi (Henrico, Va.), Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.) and Yanxin Shen (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods related to tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plan...