US Patent Issued to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 20 for "INIR12 transgenic maize" (American, Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,062, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"INIR12 transgenic maize" was invented by Joshua L. Price (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Andreas Kock (Rheinfelden, Germany), Michael Lee Nuccio (Salem, N.H.), Frederic Van Ex (Kortrijk, Belgium), Alexandra Elata (Arlington, Mass.) and Daniel Rodriguez Leal (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transgenic INIR12 maize plants comprising a vip3Aa19 or vip3Aa20 expression cassette linked to a secondary nopaline synthase terminator element which lack a selectable marker gene and/or which comprise modifications that provide for facile excis...