US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Sept. 23 for "Methods and systems for automatically tuning weights associated with breeding models" (Missouri, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,616, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods and systems for automatically tuning weights associated with breeding models" was invented by Viveka Gorla (Chesterfield, Mo.), TingYu Ho (Seattle), Adam David Scott (Maryland Heights, Mo.), Aviral Shukla (Defiance, Mo.), Yiduo Zhan (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Zihao Zhao (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for use in identifying weights to be employed in a selection algorithm associated with plant advancement are disclosed. One example method includes identifying a start set of weights for a selection algorith...