US Patent Issued to Vestaron on Sept. 9 for "Insecticidal peptide production and combination of cysteine rich peptides" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,218, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Vestaron Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

"Insecticidal peptide production and combination of cysteine rich peptides" was invented by Robert M. Kennedy (Dexter, Mich.), William Tedford (Calgary, Canada), Christopher Hendrickson (Los Angeles), Robert Venable (Lawrence, Mich.), Catherine L. Foune (Gobles, Mich.), John Mcintyre (Alto, Mich.), Alvar R. Carlson (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Lin Bao (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New insecticidal proteins, nucleotides, peptides, their expression in plants, methods of producing the peptides, new processes, production techniques, new peptides, new f...