US Patent Issued to Kansas State University Research Foundation on March 3 for "Winter wheat variety KS big bow" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,153, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.).

"Winter wheat variety KS big bow" was invented by Guorong Zhang (Hays, Kan.), Kenneth F. Rohleder (Hays, Kan.), Clayton Seaman (Hays, Kan.), Jake Thorell (Hays, Kan.), Jeffrey Ackerman (Hays, Kan.), Yonghui Li (Manhattan, Kan.) and Allan K. Fritz (Manhattan, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wheat variety designated KS Big Bow is disclosed. The variety is a hard white winter wheat that is white seeded and is well adapted for the semi-arid regions in western Kansas and surrounding states. Plants and seeds of wheat variety KS Big Bo...