US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Dec. 2 for "Maize hybrid X08T072" (Colorado, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,526, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Maize hybrid X08T072" was invented by Everton Alen Brenner (Evans, Colo.), Edwin Michael Grote (Milton, Wis.), Ronald J. Haarmann (York, Neb.) and Travis J. Lee (Hanston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel maize variety designated X08T072 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08T072 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits intr...