US Patent Issued to BASF Agricultural Solutions US on May 19 for "AXMI477 toxin variants and methods for its use" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,837, issued on May 19, was assigned to BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"AXMI477 toxin variants and methods for its use" was invented by Nanasaheb Chougule (Apex, N.C.), Margaret Dooley (Garner, N.C.), Jelena Zaitseva (Cary, N.C.), Duane Lehtinen (Cary, N.C.), Timothy Eberle (Cary, N.C.), Lei Ding (Cary, N.C.) and Yasmin Cardoza (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can ...