ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,116, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Crop Enhancement Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Nontoxic coating concentrates for agricultural uses" was invented by Damian Hajduk (San Jose, Calif.), Anne Feng Xie (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Yeon S. Choi (San Jose, Calif.), Matheus Geraldo Pires de Mello Ribeiro (Brasilia, Brazil) and Yuliani Sanjaya (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention encompasses a nontoxic agricultural formulation of a concentrated liquid suspension comprising a drying oil and suspended particulate materials further comprising an additional material; and also encompasses an aqueous for...