US Patent Issued to Benson Hill Seeds on July 1 for "Soybean cultivar 4639106" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,785, issued on July 1, was assigned to Benson Hill Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Soybean cultivar 4639106" was invented by Pedro Gonzalez-Portilla (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soybean cultivar designated 4639106 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 4639106, the plants of soybean 4639106, to plant parts of soybean 4639106, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 4639106 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants an...