ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,844, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Triazine and pyrimidine (thio)amides as fungicidal compounds" was invented by Julie Geist (Lyons, France), Cyril Montagne (Lyons, France), Lionel Nicolas (Lyons, France), Valerie Toquin (St Romain au mt d'Or, France), Mathieu Gourgues (Lyons, France), Vincent Thomas (Lyons, France) and Mazen Es-Sayed (Langenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to triazine and pyrimidine (thio)amide compounds, processes and intermediates for their preparation as well as the uses thereof for controlling phytopathogenic microorganisms, such as...