ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,235, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for synthesis, assembly and function test of artificial chloroplast genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" was invented by Zhangli Hu (Shenzhen, China), Chaogang Wang (Shenzhen, China), Chunli Guo (Shenzhen, China), Guiying Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Bin Jia (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synthesis, assembly and function test of an artificial chloroplast genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Rational design has been carried out on the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast genome for the first time, and total artificial syn...