ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,779, issued on July 1, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Wheat variety 6PHLQ96B" was invented by Candida Braga Cabral (Mankato, Minn.), William Joseph Laskar (Tipton, Ind.) and Gregory Charles Marshall (Arcadia, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheat variety designated 6PHLQ96B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PHLQ96B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PHLQ96B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PHLQ96B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis o...