US Patent Issued to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION on June 3 for "Method of controlling fungi" (Dutch, British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,896, issued on June 3, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Method of controlling fungi" was invented by Stephane Bieri (Stein, Switzerland), Dianne Irwin (Bracknell, Great Britain), John Richard Gauvin (Echt, Netherlands), Leon Coulier (Echt, Netherlands) and Adriana Carvalho De Souza (Echt, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling or preventing infestation of plants by fungi, wherein a fungicidally effective amount of cyclothiazomycin C, is applied to the plants, to parts thereof or the locus thereof."

The patent was filed on Jan. 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/799,191.

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