US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRIULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONMENT, INSTITUT DES SCIENCES ET INDUSTRIES DU VIVANT ET DE L'ENVIRONNMENT on July 21 for "Kit for the treatment of seeds" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,310, issued on July 21, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRIULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONMENT (Paris) and INSTITUT DES SCIENCES ET INDUSTRIES DU VIVANT ET DE L'ENVIRONNMENT (Paris).

"Kit for the treatment of seeds" was invented by Frederic Chauffour (Poissy, France), Omae Pozza (Meudon, France), Boris Collet (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Julie Auclair (Verneuil sur Seine, France) and Loic Rajjou (Montigny le Bretonneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit for preparing an imbibition medium in a treatment for priming seeds, including and configured for a combined application of at least two differen...