US Patent Issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds on April 8 for "Pepper hybrid SVPB9516 and parents thereof" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,177, issued on April 8, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Pepper hybrid SVPB9516 and parents thereof" was invented by Brian J. Just (Fort Myers, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPB9516 and pepper line SBY-8T18-6560. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB9516 and pepper line SBY-8T18-6560 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds a...