US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Dec. 30 for "Methods and compositions for rapid plant transformation" (California, Iowa, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,648, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Methods and compositions for rapid plant transformation" was invented by Ajith Anand (Davis, Calif.), Maren L Arling (Des Moines, Iowa), Alexandre Da Silva Conceicao (Wilmington, Del.), William James Gordon-Kamm (Urbandale, Iowa), Craig Hastings (Perry, Iowa), George J Hoerster (Des Moines, Iowa), Todd J Jones (Johnston, Iowa), Theodore M Klein (Wilmington, Del.), Carlos M La Rota (Johnston, Iowa), Keith S Lowe (Johnston, Iowa), Shiv Bahadur Tiwari (San Jose, Calif.), Ning Wang (Johnston, Iowa) and Xinli Emily Wu (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & ...