US Patent Issued to Discovery Purchaser on Oct. 28 for "Methods for the control of Poa annua in warm season turfgrass using thiencarbazone-methyl" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,350, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Discovery Purchaser Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for the control of Poa annua in warm season turfgrass using thiencarbazone-methyl" was invented by Devon Carroll (Cary, N.C.) and Patrick Maxwell (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for controlling and/or suppressing Poa annua (annual bluegrass) in a stand of warm season turfgrass are provided. In certain aspects, the methods may include contacting a stand of warm season turfgrass comprising Poa annua with an herbicidally effective amount of thiencarbazone-methyl when the Poa annua is in an early post-emergence growth stat...