US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 19 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV998724" (Canadian, American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,770, issued on May 19, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV998724" was invented by Todd E. Frank (Olivia, Minn.), Jon Popi (London, Canada), Carlos Roman (Tlajomulco de Zuniga, Mexico) and Bradley A. Sockness (Detroit Lakes, 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 CV998724. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV998724, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV998724 with itself or with another corn...