US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Aug. 11 for "Insecticidal proteins from plants and methods for their use" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,724, issued on Aug. 11, 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), Hua Dong (Johnston, Iowa), Ryan Michael Gerber (Apex, N.C.), Brooke Peterson-Burch (Ankeny, Iowa), Eric Schepers (Port Deposit, Md.), Thomas Chad Wolfe (Des Moines, Iowa), Weiping Xie (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Nasser Yalpani (Kelowna, Canada) and Xiaohong Zhong (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic aci...