ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,779, issued on April 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010485" was invented by Donald L. Bockelman (Monmouth, Ill.), Qianni Dong (Sacramento, Calif.), Jorge Moran (Westfield, Ind.), Devin Michael Nichols (Rochester, Ill.) 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 CH010485. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CH010485, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant...