US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on June 23 for "Soybean variety 5PKYP02" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,787, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PKYP02" was invented by Andrea Beth Kalvig (Waukee, Iowa), Kyle James Kocak (York, Neb.), Nadia Nikolayevna Krasheninnik (Fargo, N.D.) and John Gerard Van Herk (On, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel soybean variety, designated 5PKYP02 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PKYP02, cells from soybean variety 5PKYP02, plants of soybean 5PKYP02, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PKYP02. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PKYP02 with another soybean...