ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,832, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods and systems for use in processing seeds" was invented by David Baitinger (Ogden, Iowa), Jennifer Becker (Muscatine, Iowa), Thomas Emborg (Wentzville, Mo.), Scott Grasman (Flushing, Mich.), Chung-Hsuan Huang (Eagan, Mich.), Shrikant Jarugumilli (O'Fallon, Mo.), Anirudha Kulkarni (O'Fallon, Mo.), Krishna Nandanoor (Lexington, Ky.), Barrett Thomas (Iowa City, Iowa) and Eric Thompson (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for filling cassettes consistent with sets of seeds are provided. One example computer-implemente...