ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,766, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Pesticidally active azole amide compounds" was invented by Andrew Edmunds (Stein, Switzerland), Amandine Kolleth Krieger (Stein, Switzerland), Thomas Pitterna (Stein, Switzerland), Sebastian Rendler (Stein, Switzerland) and Jurgen Harry Schaetzer (Stein, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides."

The patent was filed on March 19...