US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on June 23 for "Soybean variety 5PWHL24" (Iowa, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,783, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PWHL24" was invented by Andrea Beth Kalvig (Waukee, Iowa) and Nadia Nikolayevna Krasheninnik (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel soybean variety, designated 5PWHL24 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PWHL24, cells from soybean variety 5PWHL24, plants of soybean 5PWHL24, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PWHL24. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PWHL24 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant tra...