ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,931, issued on July 15, was assigned to Monsanto Tecnology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010387" 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 CH010387. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010387, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010387 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a p...