US Patent Issued to Consumo Em Verde Biotecnologia Das Plantas on Aug. 5 for "Use of chelating agent and peptide antimicrobial compounds" (Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,128, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Consumo Em Verde Biotecnologia Das Plantas S.A. (Cantanhede, Portugal).

"Use of chelating agent and peptide antimicrobial compounds" was invented by Alexandra Carreira (Cantanhede, Portugal), Sara Valadas Da Silva Monteiro (Cantanhede, Portugal) and Ricardo De Seixas Boavida Ferreira (Cantanhede, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventors provide the use of a chelating agent and an antimicrobial agent that is effective against a plant pathogenic microorganism to inhibit the growth of and/or kill a plant pathogenic microorganism on a plant; the use of a chelating agent to increase the a...