US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on May 19 for "Wheat variety 6PDHJ97B" (Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,757, issued on May 19, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Wheat variety 6PDHJ97B" was invented by William Joseph Laskar (Tipton, Ind.), Cristiano Lemes Da Silva (Westfield, Ind.), Kyle Jay Lively (Tipton, Ind.), Samuel Abraham Tragesser (Windfall, Ind.) and James Joseph Uphaus (Glandorf, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheat variety designated 6PDHJ97B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PDHJ97B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PDHJ97B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PDHJ97B with another whea...