US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on May 20 for "Maize hybrid X18T161" (Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,825, issued on May 20, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Maize hybrid X18T161" 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 X18T161 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 X18T161 with another maize plant ...