ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,998, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Wheat variety 6PNKF96B" was invented by William Joseph Laskar (Tipton, Ind.), Cristiano Lemes Da Silva (Westfield, Ind.) and Kyle Jay Lively (Tipton, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheat variety designated 6PNKF96B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PNKF96B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PNKF96B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PNKF96B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or t...