US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Feb. 25 for "Heterocyclic compound and harmful arthropod-controlling composition containing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,247, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Heterocyclic compound and harmful arthropod-controlling composition containing same" was invented by Masayuki Tashiro (Takarazuka, Japan), Ayaka Tanaka (Chuo-ku, Japan) and Yuji Nakajima (Takarazuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound represented by formula (I) or its N-oxide, having a controlling effect on a harmful arthropod, Q is a group Q1 or Q2; Z is an oxygen atom; A2, A3, and A6 each a nitrogen atom; A4 is CR1a; A5 is a nitrogen atom; A7 is NR6g; G1 to G4 each is a nitrogen atom; R1a is a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group substituted...