US Patent Issued to EarthKind on June 9 for "Enhanced balsam fir oil by regulated isolate concentrations for pest control" (North Carolina, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,573, issued on June 9, was assigned to EarthKind LLC (Mooresville, N.C.).

"Enhanced balsam fir oil by regulated isolate concentrations for pest control" was invented by Kari G. Warberg Block (Cornelius, N.C.) and James E. McNew (Tazewell, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A standardized balsam fir oil composition is disclosed in which the concentrations of three behavior-modifying terpene isolates are fixed within narrowly defined ranges, alpha-pinene at 14.51%-14.55% by weight, beta-pinene at 27.12%-27.52% by weight, and beta-phellandrene at 8.06%-8.10% by weight, to eliminate natural batch-to-batch variation while maintaining 100...