ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,128, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Substituted pyridazinones as herbicides" was invented by Kenneth Bruce Ling (Bracknell, Great Britain), Christopher John Mathews (Bracknell, Great Britain), Stephen Edward Shanahan (Bracknell, Great Britain), Christiana Kitsiou (Bracknell, Great Britain), Peter Timothy Seden (Bracknell, Great Britain), John Finney (Bracknell, Great Britain) and Valerie Druais-Lefevre (Bracknell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to herbicidal substituted phenyl-pyridazine-diones and substituted phenyl-pyridazinone derivati...