US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Dec. 9 for "Maize hybrid X16T128" (Florida, Iowa, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,701, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Maize hybrid X16T128" was invented by Brian M. Anderson (Granger, Iowa), Erik Andrew Durden (Washington, N.C.), Mark Jacob Gadlage (Dyersburg, Tenn.), Gary Gray Hooks (Troy, Tenn.), Jill Renee Lennon (Tallahassee, Fla.), Katherine Lisko Madden (Dyersburg, Tenn.), Jason Michael Prothro (Thomasville, Ga.) and Steven Tyler Thornton (Leland, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel maize variety designated X16T128 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by cr...