US Patent Issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds on April 7 for "Pepper hybrid SVPB8500 and parents thereof" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,811, issued on April 7, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Pepper hybrid SVPB8500 and parents thereof" was invented by William McCarthy (Woodland, Calif.) and Scott Bradley Milligan (LaBelle, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or wi...