ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,270, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Substituted thiophene carboxamides, thiophene carboxylic acids and derivatives thereof" was invented by Jeremy Dufour (Lyons, France), Lionel Nicolas (Lyons, France), Tomoki Tsuchiya (Lyons, France), Thomas Knobloch (Charnay, France), Stephane Brunet (St. Andre de Corcy, France) and Sybille Lamprecht (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to substituted thiophene carboxamides derivatives of formula (I) and (II), their use for controlling phytopathogenic microorganisms and compositions comprising thereof."

The patent was...