US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on May 12 for "Soybean line EC2020188" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,398, issued on May 12, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Soybean line EC2020188" was invented by Joseph William Strottman (Slater, Iowa) and Daniela Sarti Dvorjak (Slater, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety EC2020188 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety EC2020188 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using EC2020188, e.g., in a breeding program."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2024, under Application No. 18/419,828.

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