US Patent Issued to KWS SAAT, University of Zurich on Sept. 29 for "Gene conferring resistance to fungal pathogen" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,450, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (Einbeck, Germany) and University of Zurich (Zurich).

"Gene conferring resistance to fungal pathogen" was invented by Bettina Kessel (Einbeck, Germany), Milena Ouzunova (Gottingen, Germany), Thomas Presterl (Einbeck, Germany), Daniela Scheuermann (Einbeck, Germany), Gerhard Herren (Gossau, Switzerland), Beat Keller (Zurich), Simon Krattinger (Bonstetten, Switzerland), Thomas Wicker (Huttwilen, Switzerland) and Ping Yang (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide conferring resistance to a plant ...