US Patent Issued to NIACET on Sept. 9 for "Products and methods for microbe inhibition on live plants by carboxylic acids and their salts" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,664, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIACET Corp. (Niagara Falls, N.Y.).

"Products and methods for microbe inhibition on live plants by carboxylic acids and their salts" was invented by Peter Rijneveldshoek (Oostvoorne, Netherlands), Kelly Brannen (North Palm Beach, Fla.) and Stanley Sojka (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for inhibiting the growth of microbes on live plants using compositions comprising a carboxylic acid of Formula (I) or salt thereof:wherein R is H, Ph, Ar, or a C1-C60 alkyl. The present invention also relates to live plant products contacted with compositio...