ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,831, issued on June 3, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV927891" was invented by Maria Mateos Hernandez (Taylorville, Ill.) and Devin Michael Nichols (Rochester, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV927891. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV927891, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV927891 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further...