US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on May 19 for "Methods and compositions for regulating alkaloids in tobacco" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,834, issued on May 19, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Methods and compositions for regulating alkaloids in tobacco" was invented by Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Va.), Rajanikanth Govindarajulu (Henrico, Va.) and Raja S. Payyavula (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to tobacco plants, plant parts, seeds, compositions, and methods related to modulating the expression of novel genes in tobacco to regulate alkaloid levels."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/365,270.

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