ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,794, issued on June 3, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010384" was invented by Christian J. Buffard (Jefferson, Colo.), Jeffrey M. Sernett (Kelley, Iowa) and Gary R. Stangland (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

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 CH010384. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010384, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010384 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a pl...