ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,516, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Wheat variety 6PPNE55B" 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 6PPNE55B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PPNE55B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PPNE55B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PPNE55B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or...