US Patent Issued to SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on April 14 for "Allele, molecular marker, and primer pair of rice HPS1 gene, and applications thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,015, issued on April 14, was assigned to SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Chengdu City, China).

"Allele, molecular marker, and primer pair of rice HPS1 gene, and applications thereof" was invented by Xuewei Chen (Chengdu City, China), Jing Wang (Chengdu City, China), Haicheng Liao (Chengdu City, China), Yu Fang (Chengdu City, China), Yingjie Wei (Chengdu City, China), Jiankui Cha (Chengdu City, China), Min He (Chengdu City, China), Weitao Li (Chengdu City, China), Junjie Yin (Chengdu City, China) and Xiaobo Zhu (Chengdu City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An allele, a molecular marker, a primer pair of rice HPS1 gene, and app...