US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 7 for "Protoplast isolation and regeneration of plants" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,767, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Protoplast isolation and regeneration of plants" was invented by David Tricoli (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for inducing callus formation and plant regeneration from isolated protoplasts of grape. This technology allows for the production of non-chimeric gene edits in grape plants by allowing the delivery of DNA through the plant cell membrane with the recovery of whole plants from a single edited cell."

The patent was filed on April 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/726,88...