US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Feb. 3 for "Composition and methods for parasite control" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,922, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Composition and methods for parasite control" was invented by Julia Hoeng (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Nikolai Ivanov (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Kacper Kaminski (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Anatoly Mazurov (Greensboro, N.C.) and Sandra Schorderet Weber (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A formulation containing an extract of a tobacco plant enriched for a compound of formula (I), or a salt or crystal thereof, where the formulation is used for reducing the infestation of ectoparasites: where R represents hydrogen or C1-C5 alkyl, a...