ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,624, issued on July 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV851273" 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 CV851273. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV851273, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV851273 with itself or with anothe...