US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on March 17 for "Heterocyclic compound and harmful arthropod-controlling composition containing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,244, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Heterocyclic compound and harmful arthropod-controlling composition containing same" was invented by Ayano Shimamura (Chuo-ku, Japan), Takayuki Shioda (Takarazuka, Japan), Takeshi Tsuruda (Takarazuka, Japan), Risa Kono (Chuo-ku, Japan) and Saki Sato (Takarazuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound of formula (I) or its N-oxide,where Z represents an oxygen atom or the like; G1 represents CR3a or the like; G2 represents CR3b or the like; G3 represents CR3c or the like; G4 represents CR3d or the like; A1 represents CR4a or the like; A2 re...