US Patent Issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds on Sept. 22 for "Spinach hybrid SVVB2740 and parents thereof" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,523, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Seminis Vegetable Seeds LLC (St. Louis).

"Spinach hybrid SVVB2740 and parents thereof" was invented by Johannes Theodorus Hendrikus Meeuwsen (Bennekom, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seeds and plants of spinach hybrid SVVB2740 and spinach line MSA-S018-1288F. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SVVB2740 and spinach line MSA-S018-1288F and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a spinach plant of another genotype. T...