US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on Oct. 14 for "Plant-based chemicals for Varroa mite control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,922, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Plant-based chemicals for Varroa mite control" was invented by Zachary Huang (Okemos, Mich.) and Xinjian Xu (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compositions and methods for killing or inhibiting honey bee parasites such as Varroa mites."

The patent was filed on July 29, 2020, under Application No. 17/630,820.

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