US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE on June 24 for "Methods for producing a complex transgenic trait locus" (Oregon, Wisconsin, Delaware, North Carolina, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,444, issued on June 24, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Iowa) and CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC (Ind.).

"Methods for producing a complex transgenic trait locus" was invented by Andrew Mark Cigan (Madison, Wis.), Saverio Carl Falco (Wilmington, Del.), Huirong Gao (Johnston, Iowa), Michael Lassner (Portland, Ore.), Derek Jantz (Durham, N.C.), Zhongsen Li (Hockessin, Del.), Zhan-Bin Liu (Clive, Iowa), Sergei Svitashev (Johnston, Iowa) and James Jefferson Smith (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing in a plant a complex transgenic trait locus comprising at least two altered target sequences in a ...