ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,684, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Enhancing the effectiveness of blended refuge" was invented by Marc C Albertsen (Grimes, Iowa), Laura Sue Higgins (Des Moines, Iowa) and Mary Trimnell (West Des Moines, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a seed blend comprising pesticidal seed and refuge seed, wherein plants grown from the pesticidal seed type do not pollinate or have reduced pollination of plants grown from the refuge seed type when the seed blend is planted. Methods for deploying the seed blend and for reducing cross-pollination between plan...