US Patent Issued to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on Sept. 15 for "Optimal maize loci" (Indiana, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,716, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Indianapolis).

"Optimal maize loci" was invented by Lakshmi Sastry-Dent (Avon, Ind.), Zehui Cao (Westfield, Ind.), Shreedharan Sriram (Waukee, Iowa), Steven R. Webb (Westfield, Ind.) and Debra L. Camper (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As disclosed herein, optimal native genomic loci from maize plants have been identified that represent best sites for targeted insertion of exogenous sequences."

The patent was filed on May 3, 2024, under Application No. 18/654,382.

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