ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,537, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. (St. Louis).

"Pepper hybrid SVHE5952 and parents thereof" was invented by Terry Berke (Pearce, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVHE5952, pepper line HAP-FD18-1465, and pepper line HAP-FD16-1410. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVHE5952, pepper line HAP-FD18-1465, and pepper line HAP-FD16-1410 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of anoth...