ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,309, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Yara UK Ltd. (Grimsby, Great Britain).
"Chemical composition for seed treatment" was invented by Stuart Ward (Grimsby, Great Britain), Jonathan Brown (Grimsby, Great Britain) and Caroline Quignon (Grimsby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid composition the treatment of seeds of leguminous crops is disclosed. The liquid composition comprises phosphorus, molybdenum, cobalt and a solvent, wherein cobalt is present as vitamin B12 and the composition has a pH between 6.0 and 7.5, and wherein the composition comprises monoethanolamine. A method of preparing seeds of leguminous cr...