Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010487

Douglas Eudy, Affton, MO (US); Gregory J. Holland, Troy, OH (US); Khusi R. Tiwari, Madison, MS (US); Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US); Samuel Prather, Williamsburg, IA (US); Sandeep Bhatnagar, Evansville, IN (US); Sarah McNeil, Manhattan, KS (US)

USPTO: us-12628776 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/4684· A01H 1/00· A01H 5/10

Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010487

Sandeep Bhatnagar, Evansville, IN (US) , Douglas Eudy, Affton, MO (US) , Gregory J. Holland, Troy, OH (US) , Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US) , Sarah McNeil, Manhattan, KS (US) , Samuel Prather, Williamsburg, IA (US) , Khusi R. Tiwari, Madison, MS (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 12:32 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4684A01H 1/00A01H 5/10

keywords hybrid cornplant variety patentcorn seedCH010487CV495061CV513248

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The pith

Hybrid corn seed CH010487 is produced by crossing deposited lines CV495061 and CV513248.

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

The document claims a specific seed of hybrid corn variety CH010487 obtained by crossing plant variety CV495061 with plant variety CV513248. Representative seeds of each parent line are deposited at NCMA under accession numbers 202106023 and 202106030. A reader would care because the claim defines a reproducible corn hybrid that can be grown from the deposited material and used in agriculture.

Core claim

A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010487, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV495061 with a second plant of variety CV513248, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV495061 and CV513248 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202106023 and NCMA Accession No. 202106030, respectively.

What carries the argument

The controlled cross between deposited parent lines CV495061 and CV513248 that generates the hybrid seed CH010487.

If this is right

Plants grown from CH010487 seed exhibit the traits conferred by the specific parental combination.
Seed of CH010487 can be reproduced on demand using the deposited parent lines.
The variety is available for commercial or research use once the patent is granted.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Farmers or breeders could test whether CH010487 shows improved yield or stress tolerance compared with nearby commercial hybrids.
The same deposited parents could be used to generate additional hybrid combinations for further evaluation.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seed lots remain viable and genetically stable enough to produce plants that consistently match the hybrid variety when crossed.

What would settle it

Grow plants from the deposited accessions, perform the stated cross, and check whether the resulting seeds and plants match the morphological and performance description of CH010487.

read the original abstract

1 . A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010487, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV495061 with a second plant of variety CV513248, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV495061 and CV513248 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202106023 and NCMA Accession No. 202106030, 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 US plant-variety patent filing that simply names two deposited inbred parents and asserts the resulting hybrid without any supporting data.

read the letter

The filing establishes legal priority for hybrid corn variety CH010487 by crossing inbreds CV495061 and CV513248 and depositing seed of each parent under NCMA numbers. That specific parental cross is the only concrete new element; everything else is standard boilerplate for protecting a commercial hybrid. The document meets the minimal legal requirement of making the parents available so that others can in principle recreate the cross. No morphological descriptions, yield data, molecular markers, or uniformity statistics appear, which is normal for this type of filing but leaves the distinctness-uniformity-stability claims unexamined in the text itself. Because the work is a legal instrument rather than a research report, the usual scientific criteria for novelty or soundness do not really apply. A reader looking for agronomic performance or genetic distance metrics will find none. The paper is therefore useful only to corn breeders or patent attorneys who need to track commercial variety releases and deposit records. It does not contain results that would interest a scientific reading group or merit citation in research papers. For those reasons I would not send it to peer review in any journal context; it belongs in the patent office, not a referee process.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims a seed of hybrid corn variety CH010487 produced by crossing inbred line CV495061 (NCMA Accession No. 202106023) with inbred line CV513248 (NCMA Accession No. 202106030). The text consists solely of this declarative legal-style definition with no accompanying data, methods, or phenotypic description.

Significance. If substantiated, a new, stable, and distinct hybrid corn variety would be of interest to plant breeders and the seed industry for its potential agronomic performance and intellectual-property protection. However, the manuscript supplies none of the standard evidence (yield trials, morphological descriptors, molecular markers, or uniformity statistics) that would allow assessment of its practical value.

major comments (1)

Abstract/Claim 1: The central assertion that the cross produces a protectable hybrid variety rests on the unshown distinctness, uniformity, and stability (DUS) properties of the resulting plants. No morphological, molecular, agronomic, or uniformity data are presented to demonstrate that progeny meet the thresholds required for plant-variety protection.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

1 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the review. This document is a U.S. patent claim (US12628776) rather than a journal research article; its legal purpose and format therefore differ from a typical scientific manuscript. We address the single major comment below.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: Abstract/Claim 1: The central assertion that the cross produces a protectable hybrid variety rests on the unshown distinctness, uniformity, and stability (DUS) properties of the resulting plants. No morphological, molecular, agronomic, or uniformity data are presented to demonstrate that progeny meet the thresholds required for plant-variety protection.

Authors: We agree that the claim text itself contains no phenotypic, molecular, or agronomic data. Under U.S. patent practice, enablement and written-description requirements for a hybrid variety are satisfied by the deposited parental inbred lines (NCMA Accession Nos. 202106023 and 202106030) together with the full specification filed with the USPTO; the single-sentence claim is intentionally concise and does not duplicate that supporting material. No revision to the claim language is therefore required. revision: no

standing simulated objections not resolved

The referee correctly notes that the submitted claim text contains no supporting data; this is inherent to the legal format of a patent claim and cannot be altered without changing the document type.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity: purely declarative definition by parental deposits

full rationale

The document contains no derivation, equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citations. The sole claim simply defines the hybrid seed by the cross of two named, deposited inbred lines (NCMA accessions 202106023 and 202106030). This is a definitional statement rather than an inference that reduces to its own inputs; no load-bearing step exists that could be circular.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the legal viability and identity of two seed deposits; no free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented physical entities are introduced.

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A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010487, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV495061 with a second plant of variety CV513248, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV495061 and CV513248 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202106023 and NCMA Accession No. 202106030, respectively.
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A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010487, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV495061 with a second plant of variety CV513248, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV495061 and CV513248 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202106023 and NCMA Accession No. 202106030, respectively.

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