ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,266, issued on April 7, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Pesticidally active heterocyclic derivatives with sulfur containing substituents" was invented by Vikas Sikervar (Bracknell, Great Britain), Swarnendu Sasmal (Corlim, India), Michel Muehlebach (Stein, Switzerland), Andre Stoller (Stein, Switzerland), Daniel Emery (Stein, Switzerland), Andre Jeanguenat (Stein, Switzerland), Anke Buchholz (Stein, Switzerland) and Benedikt Kurtz (Stein, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds of the formula (I) wherein Q is as defined in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates to agrochemi...