ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,136, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Substituted isophthalic acid diamides and their use as herbicides" was invented by Christian Waldraff (Bad Vilbel, Germany), Ralf Braun (Ramberg, Germany), Arnim Koehn (Klein-Winternheim, Germany), Hartmut Ahrens (Langen, Germany), Elisabeth Asmus (Hoesbach, Germany), Birgit Bollenbach-Wahl (Weiler/Bingen, Germany), Christopher Hugh Rosinger (Hofheim, Germany), Elmar Gatzweiler (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Jan Dittgen (Bad Nauheim, Germany) and Anu Bheemaiah Machettira (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are described isophthalamides of...