US Patent Issued to AGRO-KANESHO on April 22 for "Agricultural and horticultural chemical agent containing new imidazopyridine-2-carboxamide derivative as active ingredient" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,617, issued on April 22, was assigned to AGRO-KANESHO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Agricultural and horticultural chemical agent containing new imidazopyridine-2-carboxamide derivative as active ingredient" was invented by Katsuaki Oyama (Tokorozawa, Japan), Kohei Ojima (Tsukubamirai, Japan), Koichi Araki (Ushiku, Japan), Saki Morishita (Oyama, Japan) and Toshiki Fukuchi (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound may be used as an active ingredient of an agricultural and horticultural chemical agent, in particular, an agricultural and horticultural pest control agent such as an agricultural and horticultural insecticide or an agr...