US Patent Issued to VALENT U.S.A. on Sept. 2 for "Agricultural compositions and methods of use thereof" (Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,622, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VALENT U.S.A. LLC (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Agricultural compositions and methods of use thereof" was invented by Eduardo Chagas Ferreira da Silva (Savoy, Ill.) and John Andrew Pawlak (Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to an agricultural composition comprising a protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) inhibitor, one or more sugar alcohols and optionally, one or more auxin herbicides. The present invention is further directed to a method of controlling weeds comprising applying concurrently or sequentially a PPO inhibitor and one or more sugar alcohols, and opt...