ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,459, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BELCHIM CROP PROTECTION NV (Londerzeel, Belgium).

"Synergistically effective herbicide composition comprising pyridate and at least one defined 4-HPPD inhibitor" was invented by Jan Vermaelen (Londerzeel, Belgium), Pieter Vanhassel (Londerzeel, Belgium) and Gilles Deschomets (Londerzeel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current invention concerns a synergistically effective herbicide composition comprising as component (A) an herbicidally active amount of pyridate and as component (B) at least one 4-HPPD inhibitor selected from the group comprising triketones, pyrazolones, isoxazoles ...