US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Feb. 10 for "Herbicidal composition and method for controlling weeds" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,737, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Herbicidal composition and method for controlling weeds" was invented by Yoshinao Sada (Kasai, Japan) and Yoshinobu Jin (Kasai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a herbicidal composition having excellent control effect on weeds and a method for controlling weeds. The herbicidal composition comprising one or more PPO-inhibiting herbicides selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, flumiclorac-pentyl, lactofen, carfentrazone-ethyl, sulfentrazone, tiafenacil, trifludimoxazin, and a compound represented by the following formula (...