ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,869, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Intra-genomic homologous recombination" was invented by Ajith Anand (Davis, Calif.), Maren L Arling (Des Moines, Iowa), Pierluigi Barone (Des Moines, Iowa), Hyeon-Je Cho (Ankeny, Iowa), William James Gordon-Kamm (Urbandale, Iowa), Sandeep Kumar (Johnston, Iowa), Brian Lenderts (Johnston, Iowa), Keith S Lowe (Johnston, Iowa), Sergei Svitashev (Johnston, Iowa) and Xinli Emily Wu (Johnston, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for an inducible, high efficiency intra-genomic homologous recombination (IGHR) sy...