US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Dec. 10 for "Methods of seed breeding using high throughput nondestructive seed sampling" (Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,163,196, issued on Dec. 10, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods of seed breeding using high throughput nondestructive seed sampling" was invented by David Butruille (Des Moines, Iowa), Kevin L. Deppermann (St. Charles, Mo.), Stanton Dotson (Chesterfield, Mo.), Sam Eathington (Ames, Iowa), Heather Forbes (St. Charles, Mo.), Michael W. Petersen (Sauk City, Wis.), Bruce Schnicker (Wildwood, Mo.) and John Tamulonis (Nevada, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for use in analyzing seeds, in a population of seeds, for one or more desired characteristic. The method includes removing tissue f...