ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,579, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for simultaneously preventing pink bollworm and American bollworm" 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: "Method for simultaneously preventing pink bollworm and American bollworm, the method including at least: a step in which cotton seedlings are planted in a field 21-41 days after the date of occurrence of the adult stage of the pink bollworm in the case of the first generation, and 1-29 days after the date of occurrence of the adult stage in the case of second a...