ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,189, issued on June 16, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Herbicidal compositions comprising glyphosate" was invented by Liliana Parra Rapado (Limburgerhof, Germany), Tobias Seiser (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Douglas Findley (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Dustin Franklin Lewis (Apex, N.C.), Misha Rose Manuchehri Byrd (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Fernanda Nunes Bressanin (Santo Antonio de Posse, Brazil), Silke Zeyer (Limburgerhof, Germany) and Brady Scott Asher (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for post-emergent weed control, which comprises applying an effective am...