ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,403, issued on June 10, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Tomato line PSQ-9Z20-9230" was invented by Chad Kramer (Winters, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line PSQ-9Z20-9230. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z20-9230 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 and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plan...