US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on June 30 for "Chimeric insecticidal proteins toxic or inhibitory to lepidopteran pests" (Missouri, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,613, issued on June 30, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Chimeric insecticidal proteins toxic or inhibitory to lepidopteran pests" was invented by James A. Baum (Webster Groves, Mo.), Thomas A. Cerruti (Newton, Mass.), Crystal L. Dart (Norton, Mass.), Leigh H. English (Chesterfield, Mo.), Stanislaw Flasinski (Ballwin, Mo.), Xiaoran Fu (Belmont, Mass.), Victor M. Guzov (Cambridge, Mass.), Arlene R. Howe (Clarkson Valley, Mo.), Jay P. Morgenstern (Cambridge, Mass.), James K. Roberts (Chesterfield, Mo.), Sara A. Salvador (Wildwood, Mo.) and Jinling Wang (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nucleotide seque...