ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,370, issued on May 27, was assigned to BIO-BEE SDE ELIYAHU LTD. (Emmek H'maayanot, Israel).
"Methods for rearing and controlled release of biological control agents" was invented by Arnon Tabic (Emmek H'maayanot, Israel), Tom Katz (Emmek H'maayanot, Israel), Amir Grosman (Emmek H'maayanot, Israel) and Shimon Steinberg (Emmek H'maayanot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rearing composition comprising: predatory mite population comprising at least one mite species of the genus Phytoseiulus, and a prey mite population comprising at least one species from the order Astigmata or from the family Phytoseiidae."
The patent was filed ...