US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on June 23 for "Seed treatment process for large liquid volumes" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,736, issued on June 23, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Seed treatment process for large liquid volumes" was invented by Michaela H. Feiner (St. Louis), Vikram P. Mehrotra (Wildwood, Mo.), Sudabathula R. Rao (Wildwood, Mo.) and Kali C. Williams (Arnold, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are processes for the preparation of treated seeds. Generally, the processes described herein include providing seeds in a seed treatment apparatus. The seeds are contacted with a liquid seed treatment, thereby producing wetted seeds. The wetted seeds are dried simultaneously with the application of the li...