US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 19 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV989981" (Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,764, issued on May 19, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV989981" 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 CV989981. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV989981, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV989981 with itself or with anothe...