US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on July 7 for "Automated contamination-free seed sampler and methods of sampling, testing and bulking seeds" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,727, issued on July 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Automated contamination-free seed sampler and methods of sampling, testing and bulking seeds" was invented by Angela R. Cargill (St. Louis), Kevin L. Deppermann (St. Charles, Mo.), Jennifer Listello (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Phillip Rahn (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated seed sampler system for removing tissue from seeds includes an orientation system configured to orient seeds in a desired orientation, a sampling station configured to remove tissue from each of the oriented seeds, a sample collection subsystem configured to receive t...