US Patent Issued to Pluton Biosciences on Aug. 4 for "Microbial consortia for soil improvement" (Missouri, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,244, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pluton Biosciences Inc. (St. Louis).

"Microbial consortia for soil improvement" was invented by Benjamin M. Wolf (St. Louis), Boahemaa Adu-Oppong (St. Louis), Steven C. Slater (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Barry S. Goldman (St. Louis), Alexa Jewell Wagner (St. Louis) and Nicholas Thomas Norman (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology relating to functional microbial consortia and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods and systems for producing a microbial consortium possessing a desired function and microbial consortia produced according to such methods....