ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,533, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pink bollworm control method" was invented by Kinya Ogawa (Tokyo), Kazuomi Sato (Niigata, Japan) and Nobuaki Ishizawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pink bollworm control method that controls pink bollworms by using a mating disruption method to disturb the mating of the pink bollworms. The method including at least: a step in which cotton seedlings are planted in a field 21-41 days after the appearance of adult pink bollworms if said adult pink bollworms are a first generation, or 1-21 days after the appearance of adult pink bollworms ...