US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on March 17 for "Transgenic corn event ZM_BCS216090 and methods for detection and uses thereof" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,624, issued on March 17, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Transgenic corn event ZM_BCS216090 and methods for detection and uses thereof" was invented by Lillian Brzostowski (Wildwood, Mo.), Carrin Carlson (Wildwood, Mo.), Kelly Gillespie (Ballwin, Mo.), Tomasz Paciorek (Wildwood, Mo.), Lyle Ralston (Kirkwood, Mo.), Alexandar Renaud (St. Louis) and Heping Yang (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a transgenic corn event ZM_BCS216090, plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, progeny plants, and commodity products comprising event ZM_BCS216090. The invention also provides polynuc...