ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,668, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CHEMICREA INC. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Stable microbicide composition" was invented by Takamasa Yoshida (Iwaki, Japan), Tomoaki Noguchi (Iwaki, Japan), Naoto Taguchi (Iwaki, Japan) and Shingo Kajiyama (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a microbicide-containing aqueous composition having a superior effect of stabilizing 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one. This microbicide composition includes: (A) 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one; (B) 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl; and (C) at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of water and a hydrophilic organ...