US Patent Issued to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "INIR20 transgenic soybean with junction polynucleotide deletions" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,849, issued on July 1, was assigned to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"INIR20 transgenic soybean with junction polynucleotide deletions" was invented by Michael Lee Nuccio (Salem, N.H.), Michael Andreas Kock (Rheinfelden, Germany) and Joshua L. Price (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transgenic INIR20 soybean plants comprising modifications of the MON87701 soybean locus which provide for facile excision of the modified MON87701 transgenic locus or portions thereof, methods of making such plants, and use of such plants to facilitate breeding are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Oct. 4, 2023, un...