US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 12 for "Corn event MON 87411" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,366, issued on May 12, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Corn event MON 87411" was invented by Wen C. Burns (Chesterfield, Mo.), Catherine A. Chay (Ballwin, Mo.), Cheryl L. Cloninger (St. Louis), Mingqi Deng (Chesterfield, Mo.), Stanislaw Flasinski (Ballwin, Mo.) and Kunsheng Wu (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides corn event MON 87411, and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising event MON 87411. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 87411 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising poly...