US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on April 7 for "Compositions and methods for pollen storage" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,761, issued on April 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Compositions and methods for pollen storage" was invented by Gretchen Spiess (St. Louis) and Chad A. Stendal (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel compositions and methods for storage and delivery of pollen to a female reproductive part of a recipient plant. The pollen storage composition provided includes at least one perlite particle and pollen. The methods provided include storing the pollen storage composition and applying the pollen storage composition to at least a first female reproductive part of a recipient plan...