ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,785, issued on April 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010461" was invented by Pragya Adhikari (Ankeny, Iowa), Fufa H. Birru (Willmar, Minn.), Christian J. Buffard (Jefferson, Colo.), Rafael A Mateo (Sun Prairie, Wis.) 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 hybrid corn variety designated CH010461. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CH010461, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plan...