US Patent Issued to FMC on April 29 for "Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FCC1256 compositions and methods of controlling plant pathogens" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,017, issued on April 29, was assigned to FMC Corp. (Philadelphia).

"Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FCC1256 compositions and methods of controlling plant pathogens" was invented by Daniel Van Der Lelie (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Safiyh Taghavi (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Anthony Andrew Devine (Rungsted Kyst, Denmark) and Jaeheon Lee (Hellerup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses method of controlling plant pathogen(s), e.g. fungal and bacterial pathogens, on a plant, wherein a composition comprising Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FCC1256 deposited as ATCC No. PTA-122162 is applied to the plant, in particular to over-gro...