US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 19 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV977853" (Illinois, California, Minnesota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,772, issued on May 19, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV977853" 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 CV977853. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV977853, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV977853 with itself or with another corn...