US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on Sept. 2 for "Biocontrol formulation for controlling plant pathogens" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,630, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Biocontrol formulation for controlling plant pathogens" was invented by Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Alaskar (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Fatimah Olyan Alotibi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Wesameldin Ismail Saber (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Khaled Mohammed Ghoneim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biocontrol formulation for plant pathogens includes a Trichoderma viride filtrate and an inert substance selected from the group consisting of a viscosity reducer, a surfactant, flour, clay, and combinations thereof. In an embodiment, the filtrate inclu...