US Patent Issued to COMESTAAG on June 17 for "Treatments, methods, and kits to protect agricultural products from wildfire smoke" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,174, issued on June 17, was assigned to COMESTAAG LLC (Osceola, Wis.).

"Treatments, methods, and kits to protect agricultural products from wildfire smoke" was invented by T. Howard Killilea (North Oaks, Minn.) and Andrew A. Demaster (Pacific Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, kits, and treatment compositions for treating agricultural products to reduce or preventing wildfire smoke taint or other types of taint, including treated agricultural products, are provided. One or more treatment compositions effective in reducing or preventing wildfire smoke taint are preferably applied to agricultural products such as, fo...