US Patent Issued to Monsato Technology on April 7 for "Plants and seeds of corn variety CV989489" (Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,776, issued on April 7, was assigned to Monsato Technology (St. Louis).

"Plants and seeds of corn variety CV989489" 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 CV989489. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CV989489, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV989489 with itself or with another corn plant, such ...