US patent issued to Pioneer Hi Bred International for maize variety hybrid X08A171
Nevin Barich
ATLANTA
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February 7, 2013
(Journal of Engineering)
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According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by VerticalNews journalists, a patent by the inventors Carlone, Jr., Mario Rosario (Princeton, IL); Fox, Russell L. (Stuart, IA); Noble, Jr., Stephen William (Johnston, IA), filed on May 25, 2010, was cleared and issued on January 29, 2013.
The assignee for this patent, patent number 8362338, is Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Johnston, IA).
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "The goal of hybrid development is to combine, in a single hybrid, various desirable traits. For field crops, these traits may include resistance to diseases and insects, resistance to heat and drought, reducing the time to crop maturity, greater yield, and better agronomic quality. With mechanical harvesting of many crops, uniformity of plant characteristics such as germination, stand establishment, growth rate, maturity, and plant and ear height is important. Traditional plant breeding is an important tool in developing new and improved commercial crops."
In addition to obtaining background information on this patent, VerticalNews editors also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent: "According to the invention, there is provided a maize variety, seed, plant, and its parts designated as X08A171, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary maize inbred varieties. This invention relates to the hybrid maize variety X08A171, the seed, the plant and its parts produced from the seed, and variants, mutants and minor modifications of maize X08A171. This invention also relates to processes for making a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08A171 through locus conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant parts produced thereby. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from hybrid maize variety X08A171."
For more information, see this patent: Carlone, Jr., Mario Rosario; Fox, Russell L.; Noble, Jr., Stephen William. Maize Variety Hybrid X08A171. U.S. Patent Number 8362338, filed May 25, 2010, and issued January 29, 2013. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=68&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3389&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20130129.PD.&OS=ISD/20130129&RS=ISD/20130129
Keywords for this news article include: Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc.
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