This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent. Top assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC. Active years: 2026.
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Years Active: 2026
Title: Gretchen Spiess and Her Work in Pollen Germination Evaluation.
Introduction
Gretchen Spiess is an inventor associated with O’Fallon, Missouri, and Monsanto Technology LLC. Her patent work addresses methods for evaluating the quality of crop pollen.
Latest Patents
Spiess is credited with 1 patent: “Methods for Evaluating Pollen Germination, and Related Systems.” The invention describes germinating crop pollen in a fluid medium, then passing a sample through a flow chamber in a fluid imaging system at a predefined rate. A camera captures images of the sample, which are compared with crop-specific reference images to generate a pollen germination score indicating the germinated grains in the sample.
Career Highlights
The patent reflects an approach that combines sample preparation, fluid imaging, and image comparison to assess pollen germination. Such evaluation can provide a consistent way to measure pollen quality.
Collaborations
The supplied information lists Weilin Wang and Ross Zhan as Spiess’s coworkers. The patent is associated with Monsanto Technology LLC.
Conclusion
Gretchen Spiess’s patent describes an imaging-based method for evaluating crop pollen germination and generating a score from the captured sample images.
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