ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,606, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Lettuce variety Ice Calor" was invented by Enrique Ramos Drake (Torre-Pacheco Murcia, Spain) and Olaf Zonneveld (Enkhuizen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Ice Calor and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and ti...