US Patent Issued to H.J. HEINZ COMPANY BRANDS on July 7 for "Hybrid tomato variety 'H2249'" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,633, issued on July 7, was assigned to H.J. HEINZ COMPANY BRANDS LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Hybrid tomato variety 'H2249'" was invented by George Collier (Wheatley, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid tomato variety 'H2249' is described. The tomato variety is a ground-culture hybrid processing tomato variety suitable for the dual use market with both hand machine harvest and is adaptable to humid climactic regions such as the Northeastern USA, Portugal and Italy. It is a late season variety with resistance to Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt races 1 and 2, root knot nematode, tomato spotted wilt virus, bacterial speck, late blight an...