US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on April 7 for "Insecticidal proteins from plants and methods for their use" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,488, issued on April 7, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Insecticidal proteins from plants and methods for their use" was invented by Jennifer Kara Barry (Ames, Iowa), Angel Elizabeth Grace D'Oliviera (Wilmington, Del.), Ryan Michael Gerber (Apex, N.C.), Kevin Hayes (Urbandale, Iowa), Albert L Lu (West Des Moines, Iowa), Amy Lum (Redwood City, Calif.), Ute Schellenberger (Menlo Park, Calif.), Eric Schepers (Port Deposit, Md.), Jeffrey Sopa (Rising Sun, Md.), Weiping Xie (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nasser Yalpani (Kelowna, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for controll...