ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,175, issued on May 20, was assigned to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Modified excisable DAS68416-4 soybean transgenic herbicide resistance locus" was invented by Michael Andreas Kock (Rheinfelden, Germany), Joshua L. Price (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael Lee Nuccio (Salem, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transgenic INHT27 soybean plants comprising modifications of the DAS68416-4 soybean locus which provide for facile excision of the modified DAS68416-4 transgenic locus or portions thereof, methods of making such plants, and use of such plants to facilitate breeding are disclosed."

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