US Patent Issued to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION on Sept. 22 for "RNA molecules for modulating flowering in plants" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,176, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia).

"RNA molecules for modulating flowering in plants" was invented by Jonathan Paul Anderson (Floreat, Australia), Ming Bo Wang (McKellar, Australia), Neil Andrew Smith (Cook, Australia), Christopher Andrew Helliwell (O'Connor, Australia) and Stephen Mark Swain (Turner, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to new designs of genetic constructs for producing RNA molecules which include one or more double-stranded RNA regions which comprise multiple non-canonically basepaired nucleotid...