ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,565, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).
"Method for controlling herbicide-resistant weeds" was invented by Yuki Okajima (Chuo-ku, Japan), Mai Toriumi (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshinao Sada (Kasai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a method for effectively controlling specific weeds having resistance to herbicides. Disclosed is a method for controlling PPO inhibitor-resistant weeds, which comprises a step of applying one or more uracil compounds selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (I), a compound represented by the following formul...