Pioneer Hi Bred International issued US patent for maize hybrid X95C359

Nevin Barich

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia , May 1, 2014 (Journal of Engineering) – From Alexandria, Virginia, VerticalNews journalists report that a patent by the inventors Grant, Kelvin Grandy (Alma, MI); Garcia, Gustavo Marcelo (Stratford, CA); Carrigan, Lori Lisa (Spicer, MN), filed on February 21, 2012, was published online on April 22, 2014.

The patent's assignee for patent number 8704056 is Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc (Johnston, IA).

News editors 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."

As a supplement to the background information on this patent, VerticalNews correspondents also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent: "According to the invention, there is provided a maize, Zea mays L., variety, seed, plant, and its parts designated as X95C359, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary maize inbred varieties. This invention relates to the hybrid maize variety X95C359 the seed, the plant and its parts produced from the seed, and variants, mutants and minor modifications of maize X95C359. This invention also relates to processes for making a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95C359 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 X95C359."

For additional information on this patent, see: Grant, Kelvin Grandy; Garcia, Gustavo Marcelo; Carrigan, Lori Lisa. Maize Hybrid X95C359. U.S. Patent Number 8704056, filed February 21, 2012, and published online on April 22, 2014. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=79&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3919&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140422.PD.&OS=ISD/20140422&RS=ISD/20140422

Keywords for this news article include: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc.

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