ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,823, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).
"Active compound combinations having insecticidal/acaricidal properties" was invented by Stefan Herrmann (Langenfeld, Germany), Reiner Fischer (Monheim, Germany) and Marita John (Bottrop, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel active compound combinations comprising at least one known compound of the formula (I) and at least one further active compound of the formula (II), which combinations are highly suitable for controlling animal and microbial pests such as unwanted insects and/or unwanted acarids and/or unwanted nematodes...