US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on April 7 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV638143" (Illinois, California, Minnesota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,780, issued on April 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV638143" was invented by Donald L. Bockelman (Monmouth, Ill.), Qianni Dong (Sacramento, Calif.), Jorge Moran (Westfield, Ind.) and Silvano Assanga Ocheya (Farmington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV638143. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV638143, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV638143 with itself or with another co...