ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,538, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010371" was invented by Christian J. Buffard (Jefferson, Colo.), Jeffrey M. Sernett (Kelley, Iowa) and Gary R. Stangland (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

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 CH010371. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010371, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010371 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a pl...