US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on June 23 for "Method for controlling weeds" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,816, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Method for controlling weeds" was invented by Yoshinao Sada (Kasai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method which exerts excellent control effect in controlling weeds. The method for controlling weeds, which comprises a step of performing a spot treatment of clethodim in a cultivation area of soybean, cotton, sugar beet, rapeseed or sunflower."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2021, under Application No. 17/906,943.

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