ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,405, issued on June 10, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Tomato hybrid DRTC9039 and parents thereof" was invented by Tomas Lomas Cano (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid DRTC9039 and tomato line CCT-HE19-1075. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTC9039 and tomato line CCT-HE19-1075 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 t...