US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 1 for "Insecticidal proteins and methods for their use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,640, issued on July 1, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Insecticidal proteins and methods for their use" was invented by Ellaine Anne Mariano Fox (San Francisco), Naga Kishore Kakani (Fremont, Calif.), Kay Walter (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Takashi Yamamoto (Dublin, Calif.) and Yi Zheng (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to the field of molecular biology. Provided are novel genes that encode pesticidal proteins. These pesticidal proteins and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them are useful in preparing pesticidal formulations and in the production of transgenic pe...