US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on May 19 for "Wheat variety 6PUYW59B" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,758, issued on May 19, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Wheat variety 6PUYW59B" was invented by Cristiano Lemes Da Silva (Westfield, Ind.) and Kyle Jay Lively (Tipton, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheat variety designated 6PUYW59B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PUYW59B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PUYW59B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PUYW59B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PUYW59B are di...