ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,887, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).
"Method for controlling pests of potato plants" was invented by Huazhang Huang (Durham, N.C.) and Anil Menon (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling invertebrate pests of potato plants comprises the step of contacting the plant, parts of it, its propagation material, the pests, their food supply, habitat or breeding grounds with one or more compound of formula (I), or a composition thereof."
The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2019, under Application No. 17/274,909.
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