US Patent Issued to Rainbow Tree on June 23 for "Accelerated plant growth regulating and improved fungicide compositions and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,824, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rainbow Tree Co. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Accelerated plant growth regulating and improved fungicide compositions and methods" was invented by Emily Reller (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Sam Drahn (St. Paul, Minn.) and David Anderson (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods of regulating growth of a live plant to slow the growth of the live plant. In one embodiment, the composition consists essentially of a first component comprising a gibberellin inhibiting plant growth regulating agent and a second component comprising at least one of a s...