US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on March 31 for "Brassica GAT event and compositions and methods for the identification and/or detection thereof" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,341, issued on March 31, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Brassica GAT event and compositions and methods for the identification and/or detection thereof" was invented by David George Charne (Guelph, Canada), Wenpin Chen (Brampton, Canada), Chadwick Bruce Koscielny (Miami, Canada), Zhongsen Li (Hockessin, Del.), Jayantilal Patel (Thornhill, Canada), Ferdinand G Thoonen (Guelph, Canada), Lomas Tulsieram (Mississauga, Canada) and Yongping Zhang (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods related to transgenic glyphosate tolerant Brassica plants are provided. Specifical...