ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,995, issued on July 15, was assigned to Solasta Bio Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Insect neuropeptides 9" was invented by Julian A. T. Dow (East Dunbarton, Great Britain), Shireen A. Davies (East Dunbarton, Great Britain), Yousef Abul-Haija (East Dunbarton, Great Britain) and Lewis Archibald (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to natural or natural-like analogues of insect pyrokinin neuropeptides and AKH neuropeptides, and combinations thereof, having activity against insects, for example hemipteran, dipteran, lepidopteran, blattodean and/or coleopteran insects, such as aphids, moths...