US Patent Issued to BASF on March 25 for "Antifungal Paenibacillus strains, fusaricidin-type compounds, and their use" (German, Cameroonian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,554, issued on March 25, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Antifungal Paenibacillus strains, fusaricidin-type compounds, and their use" was invented by Isabella Siepe (Dossenheim, Germany), Heilke Brueser (Speyer, Germany), Kristin Klappach (Neustadt, Germany), Karl-Heinrich Schneider (Limburgerhof, Germany), Petra Sproete (Mannheim, Germany), Kerstin Hage (Speyer, Germany), Birgit Blanz (Limburgerhof, Germany), Eckhard Thines (Mehlingen, Germany), Luis Antelo (Hochspeyer, Germany), Louis Pergaud Sandjo (Longkak-Yaounde, Cameroon) and Till Opatz (Oberursel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention...