US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 15 for "Maize hybrid X18V369" (Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,921, issued on July 15, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Maize hybrid X18V369" was invented by Mark Jacob Gadlage (Dyersburg, Tenn.), Daniel Preston Gorman (Tallahassee, Fla.), 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 X18V369 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X18V369 with another maize plant...