US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Feb. 10 for "Increasing gene editing and site-directed integration events utilizing meiotic and germline promoters" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,920, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Increasing gene editing and site-directed integration events utilizing meiotic and germline promoters" was invented by Matthew J. Bauer (Manchester, Mo.), Lisa Kanizay (Chesterfield, Mo.), Jonathan Lamb (Wildwood, Mo.), Matthew S. Marengo (Wildwood, Mo.) and Brent O'Brien (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and compositions for increasing genome editing and site-directed integration events utilizing guided endonucleases and meiotic cell-preferred, egg cell-preferred or embryo tissue-preferred promoters."

The pa...