ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,837, issued on April 21, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010588" was invented by Ty J. Barten (Ankeny, Iowa) and Peter Vincent Maloney (Easton, Md.).

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 CH010588. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CH010588, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010588 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The disclosure furt...