US Patent Issued to Indiana University Research and Technology on Aug. 4 for "Compositions and methods for insect control" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,310, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Compositions and methods for insect control" was invented by Irene Newton (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are expression vectors encoding the Wolbachia protein WalE1. Also described are insects transformed with an expression vector of the present disclosure, and progeny thereof. Also described are methods for improving Wolbachia replication and transmission in its insect host by overexpressing WalE1 in the insect host. Improved Wolbachia replication and transmission provides for insect population ...