ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,926, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Combination of bacterial biological control agent and fatty acids" was invented by Karl-Wilhelm Munks (Neuss, Germany), Jolanda Maud Wijsmuller (VD Houten, Netherlands) and Gilbert Labourdette (Paray le Monial, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) at least one biological control agent which is a fungicidally active bacterium and/or a fungicidally active metabolite produced by the respective bacterium and b) one or more fatty acids or derivatives thereof selected from unsaturated and saturated C12-24 fat...