ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,725, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Lettuce variety luke" was invented by Melaku Degefu Mekonnen (Gilroy, Calif.) and Michael McMillen (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Luke 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 culture therefrom."...