US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on Feb. 10 for "Nucleic acid molecules for conferring insecticidal properties in plants" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,926, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Nucleic acid molecules for conferring insecticidal properties in plants" was invented by Ailing Zhou (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Kasimalai Azhakanandam (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Jared Conville (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) and Yan Zhang (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to a nucleic acid sequence which confers expression of insecticidal proteins when introduced into a cell, as well as related compositions and methods of use thereof. In some aspects, the disclosure provides ...