US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on July 29 for "Maize event DP-915635-4 and methods for detection thereof" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,707, issued on July 29, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Maize event DP-915635-4 and methods for detection thereof" was invented by Heather Marie Christensen (Ankeny, Iowa), Bin Cong (Johnston, Iowa), Virginia Crane (Des Moines, Iowa), Matthew Curtis Harmon (Urbandale, Iowa), Luciano M Jaureguy (Clive, Iowa), Jeffrey Klever (Grimes, Iowa), Albert L Lu (West Des Moines, Iowa), Kristen Denise Rinehart Krebs (Ankeny, Iowa) and Margit C Ross (Johnston, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to the field of plant molecular biology, specifically to DNA constructs for con...