US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park, The Regents of the University of California on April 21 for "Plant vectors, compositions and uses relating thereto" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,842, issued on April 21, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park and The Regents of the University of California.

"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 or coat protein, but is capable of ...