US Patent Issued to AGROFRESH on Oct. 6 for "Methods of treating crop plants" (Iowa, Washington, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,448, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AGROFRESH INC. (Philadelphia).

"Methods of treating crop plants" was invented by Richard Martin Basel (Fostoria, Ohio), Jon Frederick Fobes (Lower Gwynedd, Pa.), Edward Charles Kostansek (Buckingham, Pa.), Robert Lynn Oakes (Doylestown, Pa.), Arden Nathan Reed (Wenatchee, Wash.), Todd Bryan Edgington (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Timothy Malefyt (Stroudsburg, Pa.) and Al Green (Des Moines, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating dicot seedlings comprises contacting dicot seedlings with a composition comprising at least one cyclopropene one or more times prior to transplanting t...