ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,613, issued on March 31, was assigned to 21st Century Genetics Corp. (West Fargo, N.D.).

"Wheat variety G18C2097" was invented by Brant A Baker (Fargo, N.D.), Gregory J Fox (West Fargo, N.D.) and Steven M Fox (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheat variety designated G18C2097, the plants and seeds and plant parts of wheat variety G18C2097, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety G18C2097 with itself or another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety G18C2097 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis...