ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,832, issued on April 21, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010474" was invented by Sandeep Bhatnagar (Evansville, Ind.), Gregory J. Holland (Troy, Ohio) and Khusi R. Tiwari (Madison, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH010474. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CH010474, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010474 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant ...