US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on June 3 for "Soybean variety 5PNMK70" (Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,841, issued on June 3, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PNMK70" was invented by Andrea Beth Kalvig (Waukee, Iowa), Nadia Nikolayevna Krasheninnik (Fargo, N.D.), Leslie Charles Kuhlman (Lawrence, Kan.) and Donald Kyle (Princeton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel soybean variety, designated 5PNMK70 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PNMK70, cells from soybean variety 5PNMK70, plants of soybean 5PNMK70, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PNMK70. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PNMK70 with another soy...