US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 28 for "Soybean variety 5PFTN26" (Iowa, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,544, issued on July 28, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PFTN26" 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 5PFTN26 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PFTN26, cells from soybean variety 5PFTN26, plants of soybean 5PFTN26, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PFTN26. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PFTN26 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant tra...