ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,580, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNIMATEC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fluorine-containing pyrimidine compounds, harmful fungus control agent, and method for producing fluorine-containing pyrimidine compounds" was invented by Rie Aotsu (Ibaraki, Japan), Junya Seino (Ibaraki, Japan) and Keisuke Kokin (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorine-containing pyrimidine compound represented by formula (1), (2) or (3):wherein W and X each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, -CmF2m+1, a nitro group, -OA1, -SOlA1, -SA1, -NA1A2, -B(OA1)(OA2), -COA1, -COOA1 or -CO...