US Patent Issued to NUTRIEN AG SOLUTIONS (CANADA) on Jan. 28 for "Protoporphyrin IX derivatives and use thereof to improve the health of plants" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,655, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NUTRIEN AG SOLUTIONS (CANADA) INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Protoporphyrin IX derivatives and use thereof to improve the health of plants" was invented by Michael Fefer (Mississauga, Canada), Jun Liu (Mississauga, Canada), Yuichi Terazono (Mississauga, Canada), Kenneth Ng (Mississauga, Canada) and Youqing Shen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compounds of general Formula I:or agriculturally acceptable salts thereof. The compounds of Formula I can be used to improve the health of plants. For example, the compounds of Formula I can be used to inhibit a microbial path...