US Patent Issued to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION on Dec. 23 for "Citrus l. plant named 'HAYASE'" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. PP37,170, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Citrus l. plant named 'HAYASE'" was invented by Ryoji Matsumoto (Nagayo-sho, Japan), Toshio Takahara (Uto, Japan), Terutaka Yoshioka (Koshi, Japan), Naofumi Hiehata (Sasebo, Japan), Takeshi Kuniga (Takamatsu, Japan), Atsushi Imai (Higashihiroshima, Japan), Satoshi Ota (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroshi Fukamachi (Shizuoka, Japan), Keisuke Nonaka (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroko Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Shingo Goto (Shizuoka, Japan), Ayami Hisanaga (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomoaki Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new v...