Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010445

Judd J. Maxwell, Sycamore, IL (US); Laron L. Peters, Gothenburg, NE (US); Mark J. Brinkman, Omaha, NE (US); Nicholas P. Ochs, Ellisville, MO (US); Scott C. Stelpflug, Ankeny, IA (US); Slobodan Trifunovic, Chesterfield, MO (US)

USPTO: us-12642226 · published 2026-06-02 · patents · A01H 6/4684· A01H 5/10

Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010445

Mark J. Brinkman, Omaha, NE (US) , Judd J. Maxwell, Sycamore, IL (US) , Nicholas P. Ochs, Ellisville, MO (US) , Laron L. Peters, Gothenburg, NE (US) , Scott C. Stelpflug, Ankeny, IA (US) , Slobodan Trifunovic, Chesterfield, MO (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-06-04 11:01 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4684A01H 5/10

keywords hybrid cornplant variety patentCH010445corn seedparent line cross

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The pith

A hybrid corn seed called CH010445 is produced by crossing deposited varieties CV576039 and CV759867.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The document establishes legal protection for a specific hybrid corn variety. The variety is obtained directly from a controlled cross between two named parent lines whose representative seeds have been deposited in public repositories under given accession numbers. A sympathetic reader would care because the claim supplies a reproducible genetic starting point that breeders and seed companies can use to multiply and sell the hybrid under patent rights.

Core claim

The seed of hybrid corn variety CH010445 is produced by crossing a plant of variety CV576039 with a plant of variety CV759867, with representative seeds of the two parent varieties deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306066 and ATCC Accession No. PTA-124497, respectively.

What carries the argument

The controlled cross between the two deposited inbred parent lines that generates the claimed hybrid seed.

If this is right

Breeders can recreate CH010445 on demand using the deposited parents.
The hybrid can be multiplied and sold while the patent remains in force.
Any new variety derived from further crossing with CH010445 would need to respect the existing patent claims on the parent lines.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Commercial seed companies could license the variety for regional testing and release.
The patent adds one more documented hybrid to the pool of publicly referenced corn genetics.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seed lots of the two parent varieties remain genetically stable and correctly identified so that the stated cross reliably yields the same hybrid.

What would settle it

DNA fingerprinting of plants grown from the deposited accessions that shows the resulting progeny do not match the genetic profile expected for CH010445.

read the original abstract

1 . A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010445, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV576039 with a second plant of variety CV759867, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV576039 and CV759867 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306066 and ATCC Accession No. PTA-124497, respectively.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This is a routine utility patent that registers one new corn hybrid by naming its two deposited inbred parents; nothing else is asserted or shown.

read the letter

The filing defines hybrid CH010445 solely as the cross of CV576039 (NCMA 202306066) with CV759867 (ATCC PTA-124497). That parentage pair is the only concrete item presented as new. The text meets the minimal legal standard for a plant-variety patent by citing the accession numbers, which lets anyone obtain the lines and repeat the cross under USPTO deposit rules. No yield data, no trait tables, no comparisons to existing hybrids, and no molecular or phenotypic description appear. That absence is normal for this document type rather than a flaw in execution. The weakest external assumption is that the deposited seed lots are correctly labeled and stable, but that check sits with the depositories and examiners, not inside the filing. Because the claim is definitional rather than empirical or theoretical, the usual soundness or circularity questions do not apply. The work will interest commercial corn breeders who track specific inbred combinations and patent attorneys who draft similar applications. It does not contain results that would be discussed in a research reading group or cited in a scientific paper. A serious editor would desk-reject it from any research journal; the proper channel is the patent office, where it already sits.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims a new hybrid corn variety CH010445 produced by crossing inbred line CV576039 (NCMA Accession No. 202306066) with inbred line CV759867 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-124497). The central claim, stated in the abstract and claim 1, is definitional: the hybrid seed, the resulting plant, and methods of producing it are identified solely by reference to the two deposited parental lines.

Significance. If the deposits are viable and correctly identified, the filing secures standard utility-patent protection for a specific corn hybrid. This is routine in plant-variety protection and has direct commercial relevance for seed companies, but adds no new scientific insight or empirical result beyond the legal definition of parentage.

minor comments (1)

The single abstract sentence is repeated verbatim as claim 1; a short description of distinguishing phenotypic traits or performance data would improve readability for readers outside the patent office.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for reviewing the manuscript and for the recommendation to accept. The submission is a standard utility-patent filing whose claims are defined by reference to the deposited parental inbred lines; no additional scientific results are asserted.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The patent contains no derivation, equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citations. Claim 1 is a pure definitional statement identifying the hybrid solely by reference to two externally deposited inbred lines (NCMA 202306066 and ATCC PTA-124497). The legal claim does not reduce to any internal input by construction; viability and identity of the deposits are enforced by USPTO rules outside the text. No load-bearing step matches any enumerated circularity pattern.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented physical entities are introduced; the document is a legal deposit claim that relies on the external existence and identity of the two banked seed lots.

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Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010445

Core claim

What carries the argument

If this is right

Where Pith is reading between the lines

Load-bearing premise

What would settle it

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