ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,591, issued on April 22, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).
"Pepper hybrid SVPS2762 and parents thereof" was invented by William McCarthy (Fort Myers, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPS2762, pepper line SCU-E719-0995V, and pepper line SCU-E716-2357V. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPS2762, pepper line SCU-E719-0995V, and pepper line SCU-E716-2357V and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plan...