US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on July 28 for "Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010401" (Colorado, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,537, issued on July 28, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010401" was invented by Christian J. Buffard (Jefferson, Colo.), Jeffrey M. Sernett (Kelley, Iowa) and Gary R. Stangland (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH010401. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010401, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010401 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a ...