US Patent Issued to Monsanto Technology on May 5 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV998051" (Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,122, issued on May 5, was assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV998051" was invented by Mark J. Brinkman (Omaha, Neb.), Judd J. Maxwell (Sycamore, Ill.), Laron L. Peters (Gothenburg, Neb.) and Scott C. Stelpflug (Ankeny, Iowa).

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 CV998051. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV998051, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV998051 with itself or with another corn plant, such...