US Patent Issued to H.J. HEINZ COMPANY BRANDS on Aug. 4 for "Hybrid tomato variety 'H2239'" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,869, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to H.J. HEINZ COMPANY BRANDS LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Hybrid tomato variety 'H2239'" was invented by Kelsie M. MacLellan (Leamington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid tomato variety 'H2239' is described. The tomato variety is a ground-culture hybrid processing tomato variety suitable for machine harvest and is adaptable to humid climactic regions such as the Northeastern USA, Portugal and Italy. It is a main season variety with resistance to Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt races 1 and 2, root knot nematode, bacterial speck and moderate tolerance to bacterial spot, bacterial canker and early b...