ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,773, issued on July 14, was assigned to Monsanto Techonology LLC (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV844363" was invented by Mark J. Brinkman (Omaha, Neb.), Judd J. Maxwell (Sycamore, Ill.) 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 CV844363. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV844363, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV844363 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety....