US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Dec. 2 for "Modification of glutamine synthetase to improve yield in plants" (California, Iowa, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,516, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Modification of glutamine synthetase to improve yield in plants" was invented by Steven Henry Bass (Hillsborough, Calif.), Ericka Bermudez (Aptos, Calif.), Zhenglin Hou (Ankeny, Iowa), Shai Lawit (Urbandale, Iowa), Marian Beecher Sandoval (Oakland, Calif.), Bo Shen (Johnston, Iowa), Peter Thelen (Des Moines, Iowa), Yang Wang (Johnston, Iowa), Robert W Williams (Minneapolis), Jingrui Wu (Johnston, Iowa) and Jun Zhang (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions comprising polynucleotides encoding glutamine synthetase...