US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Aug. 19 for "Methods and compositions for producing brachytic corn plants" (American, Mexican, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,000, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and compositions for producing brachytic corn plants" was invented by Ty Jason Barten (Ankeny, Iowa), Alana N. Brown (St. Louis), Edward James Cargill (Chesterfield, Mo.), Romain Fouquet (Saint-Palais, France), Jose Rafael Gomez (Zapopan, Mexico), Matthew Sean Marengo (Cary, N.C.), Manuel Oyervides Garcia (El Palomar, Mexico), Jeanette M. Peevers (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Dennis Hung Yang (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is in the field of plant breeding. The disclosure provides methods for breeding corn plants havin...