US Patent Issued to Mendel Biotechnology, Monsanto Technology on Aug. 25 for "Manipulating plant sensitivity to light" (California, Missouri, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,072, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mendel Biotechnology Inc. (Hayward, Calif.) and Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Manipulating plant sensitivity to light" was invented by Rajnish Khanna (Livermore, Calif.), Brent A. Kronmiller (Corvallis, Ore.), Oliver J. Ratcliffe (Hayward, Calif.), T. Lynne Reuber (San Mateo, Calif.), Marie E. Petracek (Glendale, Mo.), Robert J. Meister (St. Peters, Mo.), Sasha Preuss (Webster Groves, Mo.), Amanda McClerren (St. Charles, Mo.) and Qungang Qi (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure identifies new genes which have the potential to increase broad acre yield ...