ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,355, issued on July 28, was assigned to BAYER CROPSCIENCE SCHWEIZ AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Prediction of residues of plant protection agents in harvested products" was invented by Fabian WeyBer (Leverkusen, Germany), Georg Mogk (Kurten, Germany) and Florian Mrugalla (Leverkussen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the prediction of residues of plant protection agents in plants or plant parts which are intended for human or animal consumption, preferably in vegetables and/or fruit. The present invention also relates to a method, a device, a system and a computer program product for predicting resi...