US Patent Issued to EHIME PREFECTURE on Feb. 4 for "Mandarin plant named 'Mikanken16'" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. PP36,418, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to EHIME PREFECTURE (Matsuyama, Japan).

"Mandarin plant named 'Mikanken16'" was invented by Haruhito Nakata (Ehime, Japan), Yukinori Shigematsu (Ehime, Japan), Yoji Hyodo (Ehime, Japan), Hiroaki Mido (Ehime, Japan), Takehiro Kikuchi (Ehime, Japan), Yasuyuki Masamoto (Ehime, Japan), Takae Sakimoto (Ehime, Japan), Hiromichi Yakushiji (Ehime, Japan), Takehiro Okusada (Ehime, Japan), Taizo Ninomiya (Ehime, Japan), Mitsutoshi Okamoto (Ehime, Japan), Saki Yamamoto (Ehime, Japan), Saki Miyoshi (Ehime, Japan), Toya Hioki (Ehime, Japan) and Kei Kinoshita (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new varie...