US Patent Issued to Mertec on July 21 for "Soybean cultivar 25170726" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,286, issued on July 21, was assigned to Mertec LLC (West Point, Iowa).

"Soybean cultivar 25170726" was invented by Patrick Joseph Arthur Grams (Hector, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soybean cultivar designated 25170726 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 25170726, to the plants of soybean cultivar 25170726, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 25170726, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 25170726. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant p...