US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on Oct. 27 for "Plant vectors, compositions and uses relating thereto" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,472, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Plant vectors, compositions and uses relating thereto" was invented by Anne Elizabeth Simon (Bowie, Md.), Jingyuan Liu (College Park, Md.), Georgios Vidalakis (Riverside, Calif.) and Sohrab Bodaghi (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a single stranded RNA vector suitable for introducing a therapeutic agent, such as a peptide, a protein or a small RNA, into a host plant. The vector does not encode for any movement protein...