US Patent Issued to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION on May 12 for "Garden bean variety black diamond" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,403, issued on May 12, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Garden bean variety black diamond" was invented by Daniel James Wahlquist (Nampa, Idaho).

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

The patent was filed on March...