US Patent Issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds on April 8 for "Tomato hybrid DRTC8617 and parents thereof" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,178, issued on April 8, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Tomato hybrid DRTC8617 and parents thereof" was invented by Tomas Lomas Cano (Almeria, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid DRTC8617 and tomato line CCT-HE16-1099. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTC8617 and tomato line CCT-HE16-1099 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 relates to seeds ...