US Patent Issued to Animal Control Technologies (Australia) on July 1 for "Formulations and methods for controlling invasive amphibians" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,818, issued on July 1, was assigned to Animal Control Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd (Somerton Victoria, Australia).

"Formulations and methods for controlling invasive amphibians" was invented by Linton Staples (Somerton, Australia), Michael Oelgemoeller (Townsville, Australia) and Lin Schwarzkopf (Townsville, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to formulations and methods for humanely controlling invasive amphibian populations, and in particular the cane toad, comprising 2-phenoxyethanol and ethanol and/or isopropanol as carrier."

The patent was filed on June 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/61...