US Patent Issued to Novozymes BIOAG on May 5 for "Lipo-chitooligosaccharide compositions for enhancing plant growth" (Virginia, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,198, issued on May 5, was assigned to Novozymes BIOAG A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Lipo-chitooligosaccharide compositions for enhancing plant growth" was invented by Ahsan Habib (Roanoke, Va.), Kristi Woods (Roanoke, Va.), Michael Frodyma (St. Louis) and Shawn Semones (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for improving one or more aspects of plant growth using synergistically effective amounts of one or more lipo-chitooligosaccharides and one or more agriculturally beneficial microorganisms, such as Streptomyces lydicus WYEC 108, Trichoderma virens GI-3 and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SB3778."

The patent was ...