US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 27 for "Insect inhibitory proteins" (Missouri, North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,371, issued on May 27, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Insect inhibitory proteins" was invented by David J. Bowen (Wildwood, Mo.), Catherine A. Chay (Ballwin, Mo.), Arlene R. Howe (Clarkson Valley, Mo.), Jason S. Milligan (Troy, Ill.), Christina M. Taylor (St. Louis), Monika R. VanGordon (St. Louis), Kimberly M. Wegener (St. Louis) and Brian E. Weiner (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pesticidal proteins exhibiting inhibitory, suppressive, and toxic activity against Lepidopteran pest species are disclosed, and include, but are not limited to, TIC4064 and TIC4064 amino acid sequence variants. DNA ...