US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Oct. 6 for "Compositions and methods for parasite control" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,453, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods for parasite control" was invented by Julia Hoeng (Corcelles, Switzerland), Nikolai Ivanov (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Kacper Kaminski (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Anatoly Mazurov (Greensboro, N.C.) and Sandra Schorderet Weber (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound of Formula I and formulations including such a compound may be used for the reduction of infestation with ectoparasites, in particular ectoparasites of the insect class, including fleas and mosquitoes, and/or ectoparasites of the arach...