US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on Nov. 4 for "Resistance genes associated with disease resistance in soybeans" (North Carolina, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,223, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Resistance genes associated with disease resistance in soybeans" was invented by Qingli Liu (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Andrew David Farmer (Santa Fe, N.M.), Xiaoping Tan (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Thomas Joseph Curley (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Becky Welsh Breitinger (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), John Luther Dawson (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), John Daniel Hipskind (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) and Robert Arthur Dietrich (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and c...