US Patent Issued to University of Kentucky Research Foundation on April 7 for "Method and system for selectively harvesting products from plant cells in culture" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,502, issued on April 7, was assigned to University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Ky.).

"Method and system for selectively harvesting products from plant cells in culture" was invented by John M. Littleton (Lexington, Ky.), Barbara Knutson (Lexington, Ky.), Luke Bradley (Lexington, Ky.), Stephen Rankin (Lexington, Ky.), Jan Smalle (Lexington, Ky.) and Jasmina Kurepa (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of recovering a product-of-interest from a plant or algal cell and a kit relating to the same are provided. The method of recovering a product-of-interest from a plant or algal cell includes (a) culturin...