US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 5 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV993144" (Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,119, issued on May 5, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV993144" 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 CV993144. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV993144, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV993144 with itself or with another ...