US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on March 31 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV957256" (Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,621, issued on March 31, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV957256" 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 CV957256. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV957256, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV957256 with itself or with another corn plant...