US Patent Issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds on June 2 for "Melon hybrid SVMF1124 and parents thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,206, issued on June 2, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Melon hybrid SVMF1124 and parents thereof" was invented by Jeffrey M. Mills (Woodland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid SVMF1124, melon line CAN-DV18-4776MO, and melon line CAN-DV19-4822MO. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of melon hybrid SVMF1124, melon line CAN-DV18-4776MO, melon line CAN-DV19-4822MO and to methods for producing a melon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another melon plant, such as a plant of another genotype. Th...