ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,112, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to H. J. HEINZ COMPANY BRANDS LLC (Pittsburgh).
"Hybrid tomato variety 'H2516'" was invented by Chunxiao Jiang (Oakdale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid tomato variety 'H2516' is described. The tomato variety is a ground-culture hybrid processing tomato variety suitable for machine harvest and is adaptable to hot and dry climactic regions such as California central valley, Chile and Xinjiang. It is a mid-season variety with resistance to Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt races 1, 2, and 3, Fusarium crown and root rot, root knot nematode, tomato spotted wilt virus and tomato mosaic viru...