US Patent Issued to APHEA.BIO on April 14 for "Means and methods for improving plant growth and yield" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,139, issued on April 14, was assigned to APHEA.BIO NV (Zwijnaarde, Belgium).

"Means and methods for improving plant growth and yield" was invented by Tom Viaene (Ghent, Belgium), Sofie Goormachtig (Ghent, Belgium), Thomas Simon (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Behnoush Ghodsalavi (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Steven Vandenabeele (Zwijnaarde, Belgium) and Isabel Vercauteren (Zwijnaarde, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current invention relates to a purified bacterial strain for improving plant growth and/or yield. The invention also relates to a bacterial population, a microbial active ingredient, an agriculturally active ingredient, a syn...