ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,843, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sakata Seed Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Squash plant and method for producing same" was invented by Takeshi Hamano (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a squash plant having an especially small seed cavity, and a method for producing the squash plant. The present invention provides a method for producing a small seed cavity squash plant that includes developing, from the progeny of an F1 seed obtained by crossing a Cucurbita maxima and a Cucurbita moschata, a small seed cavity squash plant in which the proportion of the volume of the seed cavity relative ...