ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,240, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PI INDUSTRIES LTD. (Udaipur Rajasthan, India).

"Oxadiazole compounds for controlling or preventing phytopathogenic fungi" was invented by Paras Raybhan Bhujade (Ahmednagar-Maharashtra, India), Maruti N Naik (Bhatkal-Karnataka, India), Manoj Ganpat Kale (Jalgaon-Maharashtra, India), Vishwanath Gade (Thane-Maharastra, India), Thakurendra Vashishtha (Alwar-Rajasthan, India), Santosh Shridhar Autkar (Akola-Maharashtra, India), Ruchi Garg (Varansi-UP, India), Alexander G. M. Klausener (Pulheim, Germany), Rohit Arvind Dengale (Ahmedanagar-Maharashtra, India), Parsaram Dadasaheb Aswale (Ahmednagar-Maharashtra, India) and Prashantha My (Chickmagalore-...