US Patent Issued to Pivot Bio on July 21 for "Methods and compositions for improving plant traits" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,650, issued on July 21, was assigned to Pivot Bio Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Methods and compositions for improving plant traits" was invented by Karsten Temme (Oakland, Calif.), Alvin Tamsir (San Francisco), Sarah Bloch (Emeryville, Calif.), Rosemary Clark (El Cerrito, Calif.), Emily Tung (Millbrae, Calif.), Kevin Hammill (Danville, Calif.), Douglas Higgins (Berkeley, Calif.) and Austin Davis-Richardson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for generating and utilizing a bacterial composition that comprises at least one genetically engineered bacterial strain that fixes atmospheric nitrogen i...