US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Jan. 28 for "Methods of multi-species insect pest control" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,657, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Methods of multi-species insect pest control" was invented by Kwang-Zin Lee (Hannover, Germany) and Andreas Vilcinskas (Fernwald, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-species pest control methods, which contact or subject a target pest to a yeast strain belonging to the species Pichia kluyveri and/or with a lysate, filtrate, isolate or extract thereof. The yeast strain belonging to the species Pichia kluyveri and/or the lysate, filtrate, isolate or extract thereof is incorporated into the body of the agricu...