US Patent Issued to AGRIGENETICS on April 1 for "Cry1D for controlling corn earworm" (California, Indiana, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,321, issued on April 1, was assigned to AGRIGENETICS INC. (Indianapolis).

"Cry1D for controlling corn earworm" was invented by Sek Yee Tan (Lincoln, Calif.), Joel J Sheets (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Todd P Glancy (Fairmount, Ind.), Aaron Todd Woosley (Fishers, Ind.), Sarah E Worden (Johnston, Iowa), Diaa Alabed (Carmel, Ind.), Stephanie Love Burton (Indianapolis), Karen C McLaughlin (Indianapolis), Kenneth Narva (Zionsville, Ind.) and Thomas Meade (Zionsville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention relates in part to the surprising discovery that Cry1Da is active against corn earworm (CEW), Helicoverpa zea (Boddie)...