ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,816, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NUTRIAG LTD. (Toronto).

"Compositions for controlling a plant disease" was invented by Kelly S. E. Tanaka (Toronto), Siu Ming Law (East Gwillimbury, Canada), Trisevgeni Trissa Kantzas (Georgetown, Canada) and Martin David Bloomberg (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to aqueous compositions for controlling a plant disease caused by a phytopathogenic organism, to methods of preparing such compositions and to uses of such compositions, for example for controlling a plant disease caused by a phytopathogenic organism. The aqueous compositions comprise copper ions...