ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,934, issued on July 15, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010423" was invented by Maria Mateos Hernandez (Taylorville, Ill.), Devin Michael Nichols (Rochester, Ill.) 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 CH010423. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010423, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010423 with itself or with another corn plant, such ...