US Patent Issued to RNAISSANCE on July 28 for "Methods and compositions for microbial delivery of double stranded RNA" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,596, issued on July 28, was assigned to RNAISSANCE AG LLC (Shawnee Mission, Kan.).

"Methods and compositions for microbial delivery of double stranded RNA" was invented by John L. Killmer (St. Louis) and Anil Kumar (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and materials for improved delivery of dsRNA are presented. In particular, methods for controlling an insect pest by stably delivering large quantities of dsRNA to the insect pest are provided. Compositions comprising a bacterium containing a large quantity of dsRNA targeting an insect gene in which the dsRNA exhibits increased stability and activity are also provided."

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