US Patent Issued to EHIME PREFECTURE on Jan. 13 for "Mandarin plant named 'Mikanken15'" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. PP37,207, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to EHIME PREFECTURE (Matsuyama, Japan).

"Mandarin plant named 'Mikanken15'" 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), Kei Kinoshita (Ehime, Japan) and Daijiro Sugawara (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pate...