ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,683, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Methods to evaluate traits" was invented by Nathan David Coles (Johnston, Iowa), Jeffrey M Hegstad (Ankeny, Iowa) and Jasdeep S Mutti (Johnston, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for testing agronomic performance of transgenic traits and genome edits in plants and for accelerated selection of such plants. Methods evaluated include testing constructs for transgenic trait performance (T) using isolines. The methods comprise crossing events into different genetic backgrounds. Methods also comprise combi...