US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on June 9 for "Soybean variety 5PNHK56" (Iowa, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,536, issued on June 9, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PNHK56" 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 5PNHK56 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PNHK56, cells from soybean variety 5PNHK56, plants of soybean 5PNHK56, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PNHK56. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PNHK56 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait...