ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,057, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).
"Methods for selecting inheritable edits" was invented by Linda Rymarquis (High Ridge, Mo.) and Yuanji Zhang (Chesterfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The reported method identifies the likelihood that a heritable sequence in a plant is to be passed onto subsequent generations. One or more genome edits are introduced into a plant cell and the gnomic DNA of the resulting plant is analyzed to determine the frequency of the one or more genome edits in the sample. Edits that are present in a quantity above a reference cutoff are considered to have...