ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,230, issued on July 22, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010388" was invented by Megan Starr Eller (Lanesville, Ind.), Martin Medina (Wildwood, Mo.), Nicholas P. Ochs (Ellisville, Mo.) and Slobodan Trifunovic (Chesterfield, Mo.).

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 CH010388. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010388, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010388 with itself or with ...