MUMBAI, India, March 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417071861 A) filed by Basf Agro Trademarks Gmbh, Ludwigshafen, Germany, on Sept. 23, 2024, for 'hybrid model to optimize the fungicide application schedule.'

Inventor(s) include Zhao, Gang; Kiepe, Bjoern; Johnen, Andreas; Epke, Karoline; and Zhao, Quanying.

The application for the patent was published on March 7, under issue no. 10/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to fungal disease management. In order to improve fungal disease management, a computer-implemented method (200) is provided for determining a disease progression usable for fungicide spray schedule on an agricul...