US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on April 7 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV978472" (Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,770, issued on April 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV978472" was invented by Magen Eller (Lanesville, Ind.), Maria Mateos-Hernandez (Taylorville, Ill.), Devin Michael Nichols (Rochester, Ill.) and Clinton J. Turnbull (Thayer, Neb.).

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 CV978472. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV978472, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV978472 with itself or with anot...