US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on May 5 for "Soybean variety 5PDKQ02" (Iowa, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,150, issued on May 5, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Soybean variety 5PDKQ02" was invented by Andrea Beth Kalvig (Waukee, Iowa) and Leslie Charles Kuhlman (Lawrence, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel soybean variety, designated 5PDKQ02 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PDKQ02, cells from soybean variety 5PDKQ02, plants of soybean 5PDKQ02, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PDKQ02. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PDKQ02 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/o...