US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on July 15 for "Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010406" (Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,933, issued on July 15, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010406" was invented by Gregory J. Holland (Troy, Ohio), Jeffrey M. Sernett (Kelley, Iowa), Gary R. Stangland (Cedar Rapids, 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 CH010406. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010406, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010406 with itself or with an...