US Patent Issued to BIOPRACT on Feb. 10 for "Method for prophylaxis of infections in crops and ornamentals, preferably in viticulture, and in woody plants" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,742, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BIOPRACT GMBH (Berlin).

"Method for prophylaxis of infections in crops and ornamentals, preferably in viticulture, and in woody plants" was invented by Matthias Gerhardt (Berlin), Joachim Pheiffer (Wilnsdorf, Germany), Hanns-Heinz Kassemeyer (Pfaffenweiler, Germany), Rene Fuchs (Herzhausen, Germany) and Sophie Jacobs (Giessen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method for prophylaxis of infections by fungi, particularly by oomycetes, and of bacterial infections in crop and ornamental plants. Areas of application are vine, fruit, vegetable and ornamental plant growin...