US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation, Florida Foundation Seed Producers on Sept. 29 for "Strawberry variety 'FL 19.66-220'" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,738, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.) and Florida Foundation Seed Producers Inc. (Marianna, Fla.).

"Strawberry variety 'FL 19.66-220'" was invented by Vance M. Whitaker (Brandon, Fla.), Cheryl Dalid (Valrico, Fla.) and Luis Osorio (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides plants of the strawberry variety designated 'FL 19.66-220'. The invention thus relates to the plants, cells, plant parts, and tissue cultures of variety 'FL 19.66-220', and to methods for producing a strawberry plant produced by crossing a strawberry plant of strawberry v...