ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,580, issued on July 29, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"Plant vitalizing agent containing exogenous elicitor and endogenous elicitor and use thereof" was invented by Ichiro Fujita (Tokyo), Makoto Saito (Tokyo), Hiroshi Uchida (Tokyo) and Hisashi Kimoto (Awara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Physiological processes in plants are regulated and reinforced, and crop vitality, yield, quality and post-harvesting storage life are improved. A plant vitalizer comprising an exogenous elicitor and an endogenous elicitor is applied to plants."

The patent was filed on June 15, 2020, under Application No. 17/619,627.

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