ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,625, issued on July 7, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV988211" was invented by Mark J. Brinkman (Omaha, Neb.), Judd J. Maxwell (Sycamore, Ill.), Laron L. Peters (Gothenburg, Neb.) and Scott C. Stelpflug (Ankeny, Iowa).

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 CV988211. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV988211, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV988211 with itself or with another corn plant, su...