US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on Nov. 4 for "Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010402" (Colorado, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,961, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010402" 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 CH010402. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010402, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010402 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a pl...