ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,511, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Maize event DP-056113-9 and methods of use thereof" was invented by Heather Marie Christensen (Ankeny, Iowa), Sarah Collinson (Woodland, Calif.), Tim Fox (Des Moines, Iowa), Kristin Haug Collet (Des Moines, Iowa) and Mary Trimnell (West Des Moines, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions and methods disclosed relate to DNA compositions, plant cells, seeds, plant parts that relate to maize maintainer plants. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the maize DP-056113-9 event based on the DNA sequence of the recombi...