US Patent Issued to BASF AGRO on Jan. 27 for "Methods and uses of a mixture comprising alpha-cypermethrin and dinotefuran for combating or controlling mosquitoes" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,888, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BASF AGRO B.V. (Arnhem, Netherlands).

"Methods and uses of a mixture comprising alpha-cypermethrin and dinotefuran for combating or controlling mosquitoes" was invented by James W. Austin (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Kevin Elias Littlejohn (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Kenneth Scott Brown (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Clark D. Klein (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) and Frederick C. Gordon (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to uses and methods for combating or controlling mosquitoes, by applying a mixture comprising alpha-cypermethrin ...