ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,597, issued on July 28, was assigned to KIMITEC BIOGROUP S.L. (Vicar, Spain).

"Biopesticide compositions comprising plant extracts and phytosanitary use thereof" was invented by Felix Garcia Moreno (Vicar, Spain), Efren Remesal Gonzalez (Vicar, Spain), Luis Fernando Julio Torres (Vicar, Spain), Omar Santana Meridas (Vicar, Spain), Maria Martin Bejerano (Vicar, Spain) and Salvador Gimenez Garcia (Vicar, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biopesticide composition contains a synergistic bioactive core consisting of essential oil, oleoresin, aqueous, alcoholic or hydroalcoholic extract of root or rhizomes of Zingiber officinale Rosco...