US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on July 14 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV968805" (Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,775, issued on July 14, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV968805" 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 CV968805. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV968805, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV968805 with itself or with anot...