ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,619, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Soybean variety" was invented by Jose Aponte-Rivera (Slater, Iowa) and Brian Scott Erdahl (Clinton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety CL1920562, CL1920645, CL1920541, CL1920755, CL1920650, CL1920544, CL1920822, CL1920804, CL1920763, and/or CL1920828 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety CL1920562, CL1920645, CL1920541, CL1920755, CL1920650, CL1920544, CL1920822, CL1920804, CL1920763, and/or CL1920828 and its seed, cells, germplasm, ...