US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 26 for "Methods and systems for leveraging links between phenotypic and genotypic data for plants" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,229, issued on May 26, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods and systems for leveraging links between phenotypic and genotypic data for plants" was invented by Jennifer E. Spindel (University City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for linking phenotypic data with genotypic data, to facilitate plant development, includes combining a phenotypic data structure and a genotypic data structure into a combined data structure and separating the combined data structure into multiple segment data structures, where each segment data structure includes data for a target phenotype and genotypic da...