US Patent Issued to COVERCRESS on July 28 for "Pennycress variety B3" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,532, issued on July 28, was assigned to COVERCRESS INC. (St. Louis).

"Pennycress variety B3" was invented by Mark Messmer (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel pennycress variety designated B3 is provided. This disclosure thus relates to the seeds of pennycress variety B3, to the plants of pennycress variety B3, to plant parts of pennycress variety B3, to methods for producing a pennycress plant by crossing a plant of pennycress variety B3 with a plant of another pennycress variety, and to methods for producing a plant of pennycress variety B3 containing in its genetic material one or more gene edits, backcross conversion...