US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 12 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV629408" (Illinois, California, Minnesota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,383, issued on May 12, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV629408" was invented by Donald L. Bockelman (Monmouth, Ill.), Qianni Dong (Sacramento, Calif.), Jorge Moran (Westfield, Ind.) and Silvano Assanga Ocheya (Farmington, Minn.).

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 CV629408. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV629408, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV629408 with itself or with another corn...