ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. RE50,663, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Heterocycle derivatives as pesticides" was invented by Dominik Hager (Monheim, Germany), Ruediger Fischer (Pulheim, Germany), Laura Hoffmeister (Duesseldorf, Germany), Nina Kausch-Busies (Duesseldorf, Germany), Marc Mosrin (Monheim, Germany), David Wilcke (Duesseldorf, Germany), Matthieu Willot (Duesseldorf, Germany), Kerstin Ilg (Cologne, Germany), Sascha Eilmus (Leichlingen, Germany), Ulrich Goergens (Ratingen, Germany) and Andreas Turberg (Haan, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I)in which Aa, Ab, R1...