US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on June 3 for "Proteins toxic to Hemipteran insect species" (Missouri, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,716, issued on June 3, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Proteins toxic to Hemipteran insect species" was invented by James A. Baum (Webster Groves, Mo.), Artem G. Evdokimov (Orchard Park, N.Y.), Stanislaw Flasinski (Ballwin, Mo.), Farhad Moshiri (Chesterfield, Mo.), Timothy J. Rydel (St. Charles, Mo.), Eric J. Sturman (Wildwood, Mo.), Moritz von Rechenberg (Waltham, Mass.), Halong Vu (Arlington, Mass.), Andrew M. Wollacott (Boston) and Meiying Zheng (Wildwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses Hemipteran insect inhibitory proteins, methods of using such proteins, nucleotide sequenc...