ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,684, issued on March 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Method for classifying plant material" was invented by Nicolas Jean-Pierre Olivier Bakaher (Villers-leLac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying a batch of plant material as either being contaminated or non-contaminated includes: (i) providing a sample of polynucleotide from the batch; (ii) contacting the sample with one or more amplification primers to amplify a polynucleotide sequence associated with sterility; (iii) performing an in vitro polynucleotide amplification reaction on the sample to generate one or more...