US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on March 24 for "Methods of tracing and/or sourcing plant material" (Arizona, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,803, issued on March 24, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Methods of tracing and/or sourcing plant material" was invented by Gwyneth Gordon (Tempe, Ariz.), Joseph Skulan (Lodi, Wis.) and Odysseas Ladopoulos (Waunakee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of producing nutrient solutions having unique isotopic fingerprints; methods of producing traceable plants; and methods of identifying the source of a traceable plant that does not rely on expensive artificially separated isotopes. Plants grown with these nutrient solutions will have unique isot...