ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,236, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Agventure B.V. (Diepenveen, Netherlands).
"Hybrid seed potato breeding" was invented by Willem Hendrik Lindhout (Wageningen, Netherlands), Teunis Philippus Schotte (Hazerswoude-Dorp, Netherlands), Richard Gerardus Franciscus Visser (Bennekom, Netherlands), Herman Johannes van Eck (Wageningen, Netherlands) and Ronaldus Cornelis Bernardus Hutten (Rhenen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to diploid, fertile, self-compatible and essentially homozygous potato lines, wherein said lines comprise an agronomically desirable trait such as vigour. The invention furthe...