Patent Issued for Maize Variety Hybrid X00A929

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering -- Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc (Johnston, IA) has been issued patent number 8324480, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by VerticalNews editors.

The patent's inventors are Smalley, Matthew David (Noblesville, IN); Piper, Todd Elliott (Mankato, MN); Hotchkiss, Jay Robert (Brookings, SD); Arbelbide, Martin (North Mankato, MN); Gogerty, Joseph Kevin (Algona, IA).

This patent was filed on June 3, 2010 and was cleared and issued on December 4, 2012.

From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: "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."

Supplementing the background information on this patent, VerticalNews reporters 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 X00A929, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary maize inbred varieties. This invention relates to the hybrid maize variety X00A929, the seed, the plant and its parts produced from the seed, and variants, mutants and minor modifications of maize X00A929. This invention also relates to processes for making a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00A929 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 X00A929."

For the URL and additional information on this patent, see: Smalley, Matthew David; Piper, Todd Elliott; Hotchkiss, Jay Robert; Arbelbide, Martin; Gogerty, Joseph Kevin. Maize Variety Hybrid X00A929. U.S. Patent Number 8324480, filed June 3, 2010, and issued December 4, 2012. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=68&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3394&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20121204.PD.&OS=ISD/20121204&RS=ISD/20121204

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

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