US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 20 for "Soybean transgenic event MON 87708 and methods of use thereof" (Missouri, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,182, issued on May 20, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Soybean transgenic event MON 87708 and methods of use thereof" was invented by Ronald J. Brinker (Ellisville, Mo.), Wen C. Burns (Chesterfield, Mo.), Paul C. C. Feng (Wildwood, Mo.), Anju Gupta (Ankeny, Iowa), Sio-Wai Hoi (St. Louis), Marianne Malven (Ellisville, Mo.) and Kunsheng Wu (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a transgenic soybean event MON 87708 plant and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products derived from event MON 87708. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 877...