US Patent Issued to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION on July 14 for "Lettuce variety thunderstruck" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,772, issued on July 14, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Lettuce variety thunderstruck" was invented by Melaku Degefu Mekonnen (Gilroy, Calif.) and Justin Keith Goodwyn (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Thunderstruck and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue ...