ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,769, issued on April 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV870012" was invented by Marvin L. Boerboom (Alexandria, Minn.) and Todd Frank (Olivia, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV870012. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV870012, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV870012 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to cor...