ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,862, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"High throughput cassette filler" was invented by Michael Dayawon (St. Louis), Scott Essner (St. Louis), Cheryl Florida (St. Louis), Alan Jackson (St. Louis), Jeffrey A. Lickenbrock (St. Louis), Mark J. Menius (St. Louis), Ryan K. Tellor (St. Louis) and Matthew J. Weis (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small object cassette processing station for depositing small objects into selected cells of a small object cassette. The station comprises a bulk small object bin structured and operable to retain a bulk quantity of small objects of a selected type. T...