US Patent Issued to BASF on July 14 for "Malonamides and their use as herbicides" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,802, issued on July 14, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Malonamides and their use as herbicides" was invented by Marc Heinrich (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Markus Kordes (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Tobias Seiser (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Gunther Zimmermann (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Trevor William Newton (Limburgerhof, Germany) and Gerd Kraemer (Limburgerhof, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compounds of formula (I), and their use as herbicides. In said formula, R1 to R8 represent groups such as hydrogen, halogen or organic groups such as alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or alkoxy; X is a bond or a diva...