US Patent Issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds on April 15 for "Tomato hybrid SVTD8601 and inbred tomato line FDR-9Q16-0349" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,231, issued on April 15, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Tomato hybrid SVTD8601 and inbred tomato line FDR-9Q16-0349" was invented by James D. Frantz (Cape Coral, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTD8601 and tomato line FDR-9Q16-0349. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTD8601 and tomato line FDR-9Q16-0349 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further...