ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,646, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).
"Manipulation of dominant male sterility" was invented by Andrew Mark Cigan (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for modulating male fertility in a plant are provided. Compositions comprise nucleotide sequences, and active fragments and variants thereof, which modulate male fertility. Further provided are expression cassettes comprising the male fertility polynucleotides, or active fragments or variants thereof, operably linked to a promoter, wherein expression of the polynucleotides modulates the male fert...