US Patent Issued to Pivot Bio on Oct. 27 for "Guided microbial remodeling, a platform for the rational improvement of microbial species for agriculture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,470, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Pivot Bio Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Guided microbial remodeling, a platform for the rational improvement of microbial species for agriculture" was invented by Sarah Bloch (Berkeley, Calif.), Karsten Temme (Berkeley, Calif.), Alvin Tamsir (Berkeley, Calif.), Douglas Higgins (Berkeley, Calif.), Austin Davis-Richardson (Berkeley, Calif.), Rosemary Clark (Berkeley, Calif.) and Shayin Gottlieb (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides guided microbial remodeling (GMR) methods for the rational improvement of plant-associated microbes to perform plant-beneficial...