US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on July 15 for "Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010404" (Iowa, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,935, issued on July 15, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010404" was invented by Thomas B. Carlson (Ankeny, Iowa), Jeffrey M. Sernett (Kelley, Iowa) and Clinton J. Turnbull (Thayer, Neb.).

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 CH010404. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010404, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010404 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of an...