US Patent Issued to NOVOZYMES BIOAG on June 2 for "Methods of protecting a plant from a fungal pest" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,273, issued on June 2, was assigned to NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Methods of protecting a plant from a fungal pest" was invented by Brian R. Scott (Kanata, Canada), John William Rice (Pittsboro, N.C.), Jarrod Leland (Blacksburg, Va.), Dave Greenshields (Saskatoon, Canada) and Sharon Inch (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage and/or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ, comprising applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a phytoprotectiv...