US Patent Issued to Pioneer Hi-Bred International on Sept. 9 for "Detection of sequences uniquely associated with a DNA target region" (Iowa, Indiana, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,470, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Johnston, Iowa).

"Detection of sequences uniquely associated with a DNA target region" was invented by Ananta Acharya (Johnston, Iowa), Amanda Marie Gannon (Dallas Center, Iowa), Hena Guo (Johnston, Iowa), Kevin Hayes (Urbandale, Iowa), Robyn Lynn Laskowski (Des Moines, Iowa), Robert Ebow McEwan (Ankeny, Iowa), Carisa Townsend (Palmetto, Ga.), Lasantha Ubayasena (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Gina Marie Zastrow-Hayes (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments concern methods for determining sequences of interest using targeted uniq...