US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Aug. 19 for "Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010400" (Wisconsin, Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,855, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010400" was invented by Fufa H. Birru (Willmar, Minn.), Christian J. Buffard (Jefferson, Colo.) and Richard G. Stelpflug (Cassville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH010400. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010400, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010400 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a pla...