US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on March 3 for "Herbicidal agent composition and weed control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,192, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Herbicidal agent composition and weed control method" was invented by Yoshinobu Jin (Kasai, Japan) and Akihiro Tomita (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a herbicidal composition and a method for controlling weeds that have a superior weed controlling effect. The present herbicidal composition comprises one or more uracil compounds selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by formula (I) and a compound represented by formula (II), and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of the herbicide...