US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 7 for "Insecticidal proteins and methods for their use" (California, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,176, issued on July 7, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Insecticidal proteins and methods for their use" was invented by David Charles Cerf (Palo Alto, Calif.), Steven D Gruver (Pacifica, Calif.), Lu Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Young-Jun Park (Fremont, Calif.), Ute Schellenberger (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun-Zhi Wei (Johnston, Iowa), Weiping Xie (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Genhai Zhu (San Jose, 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 acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In parti...