US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Aug. 11 for "Methods and compositions for multiplexed editing of plant cell genomes" (Iowa, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,868, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Methods and compositions for multiplexed editing of plant cell genomes" was invented by Nicholas Doane Chilcoat (Clive, Iowa), Joseph Evans (Johnston, Iowa), Yi Jia (Zionsville, Ind.), Eli Rodgers-Melnick (Johnston, Iowa) and Joshua K Young (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are provided for massively parallel base editing in the genome of an organism, such as a plant. Multiple loci are selected based on one or more specific criteria, such as evolutionary conservation, recombination frequency, nonsense mu...