ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,095, issued on April 22, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Pesticidally active diazine-amide compounds" was invented by Jurgen Harry Schaetzer (Stein, Switzerland), Andrew Edmunds (Stein, Switzerland), Julien Daniel Henri Gagnepain (Stein, Switzerland), Roger Graham Hall (Stein, Switzerland), Andre Jeanguenat (Stein, Switzerland), Amandine Kolleth Krieger (Stein, Switzerland), Camille Le Chapelain (Stein, Switzerland), Shrikant Palwe (Goa, India), Mangala Phadte (Goa, India), Thomas Pitterna (Stein, Switzerland), Sebastian Rendler (Stein, Switzerland) and Christopher Charles Scarborough (Stein, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by t...