US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 28 for "Soybean variety 5PTNN70" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,551, issued on July 28, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PTNN70" was invented by Andrea Beth Kalvig (Waukee, Iowa) and Landon Linn Ries (Armstrong, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel soybean variety, designated 5PTNN70 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PTNN70, cells from soybean variety 5PTNN70, plants of soybean 5PTNN70, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PTNN70. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PTNN70 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or...