ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,564, issued on March 17, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for disinfecting plant" was invented by Masatoshi Kamei (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for disinfecting a plant including a step of applying to the plant a disinfectant treatment liquid for plants, the disinfectant treatment liquid containing, (A) a straight-chain aliphatic alcohol with 8 or more and 12 or less carbons as a disinfectant component (hereinafter referred to as component (A)), (B) a polyoxyalkylene sorbitan fatty acid ester (hereinafter referred to as component (B)) and water, wherein a mass ratio between the content of compone...