US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 14 for "Soybean line 5PAKS02" (Iowa, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,793, issued on July 14, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean line 5PAKS02" was invented by Andrea Beth Kalvig (Waukee, Iowa) and Nadia Nikolayevna Krasheninnik (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel soybean variety, designated 5PAKS02 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PAKS02, cells from soybean variety 5PAKS02, plants of soybean 5PAKS02, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PAKS02. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PAKS02 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait,...