ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,816, issued on May 20, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Cucumber hybrid SVCS0025 and parents thereof" was invented by Nischit Shetty (Fort Myers, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of cucumber hybrid SVCS0025 and cucumber inbred line ASL-M3092027M0. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid SVCS0025 and cucumber inbred line ASL-M3092027M0 and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a cucumber plant of another genotype. The invent...