ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,456, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Heterocyclyl pyridines as novel fungicides" was invented by Julie Geist (Lyons, France), Anthony Millet (Tignieu-Jameyzieu, France), Cyril Montagne (Lyons, France), Lionel Nicolas (Lyons, France), Tomoki Tsuchiya (Lyons, France), Dominique Loque (Satigny, Switzerland) and Vincent Thomas (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to heterocyclyl pyridine compounds, processes and intermediates for their preparation as well as the uses thereof for controlling phytopathogenic microorganisms, such as phytopathogenic fungi."

The pate...