ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,815, issued on July 1, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Combinations containing PVA and certain herbicides with improved properties" was invented by Lothar Lorentz (Waldbrol, Germany), Roland Deckwer (Dusseldorf, Germany), Stefan Sachau (Cologne, Germany), Udo Bickers (Cologne, Germany), Markus Telscher (Monheim, Germany) and Angela Kazmierczak (Horace, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of crop protection. More specifically, the invention relates to combinations of (I) polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and (II) a composition comprising one or more water soluble herbicidal ac...