ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,282, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Bayer AG (Germany).

"System for determining the effect of active ingredients on acariformes, insects and other organisms in an assay plate containing wells" was invented by Johannes Linzbach (Cologne, Germany), Barthel Bach-Zelewski (Remscheid, Germany), Klaus Ochmann (Leverkusen, Germany), Franco Fois (Monheim, Germany), Kerstin Ilg (Cologne, Germany) and Angelika Kollen (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an automated system and a method for determining the effect of active ingredients on organisms such as insects, Acariformes and nematodes in an assay pl...