US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on May 13 for "Insecticidal proteins from plants and methods for their use" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,442, issued on May 13, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Insecticidal proteins from plants and methods for their use" was invented by Jennifer Kara Barry (Ames, Iowa), Catherine J Clark (Altoona, Iowa), Ryan Michael Gerber (Apex, N.C.), Amy Lum (Redwood City, Calif.), John P Mathis (Johnston, Iowa), Azalea S Ong (Castro Valley, Calif.), Brooke Peterson-Burch (Ankeny, Iowa), Thomas Chad Wolfe (Des Moines, Iowa), Weiping Xie (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Nasser Yalpani (Kelowna, Canada) and Xiaohong Zhong (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for controlling pests a...