ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,739, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BELCHIM CROP PROTECTION NV (Londerzeel, Belgium).

"Synergistically effective fungicide composition comprising choline phosphonate and at least one additional fungicide" was invented by Johan De Saegher (Londerzeel, Belgium), Paul Ruelens (Londerzeel, Belgium) and Patrice Cauchy (Londerzeel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current invention concerns a synergistically effective fungicide composition comprising as component (A) a fungicidally active amount of choline phosphonate and as component (B) at least one additional fungicide selected from the group comprising quinone fungicides, s...