US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on July 28 for "Phenyl compound and plant disease control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,590, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Phenyl compound and plant disease control method" was invented by Yusuke Ota (Osaka, Japan), Teruki Takahashi (Chuo-ku, Japan) and Koichiro Dota (Takarazuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an excellent control method against plant diseases. A compound represented by formula (I)[wherein: Z represents a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group or the like; Q represents a group represented by Q1, a group represented by Q2, or a group represented by Q3 (wherein # represents the binding site to the phenyl group; and * represents...