ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,263, issued on July 15, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Cucumber plants with improved pest resistance" was invented by Melissa C. Cantet (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Eva King-Fan Chan (Rosebery, Australia), Maarten J. K. De Milliano (Enkhuizen, Netherlands), Jeroen S. de Vries (Bergschenhoek, Netherlands), Fengxing Du (Chesterfield, Mo.), Uri Krieger (Bergschenhoek, Netherlands), Robyn L. Morgan (Riverside, Calif.), Antoon Stekelenburg (Houten, Netherlands), Emilia M. Tomas (Almeria, Spain) and Wenwen Xiang (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cucumber plants exhibiting resistance to Fusarium oxysporu...