US Patent Issued to Syngenta Crop Protection on Aug. 4 for "Compositions and methods for controlling coleopteran insects" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,509, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods for controlling coleopteran insects" was invented by Clarence Michael Reynolds (Durham, N.C.), Kevin V. Donohue (Durham, N.C.) and Abdel Toure (Saint-Sauveur, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel pesticidal polypeptides that are active against Coleopteran pests are disclosed. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the novel insecticidal proteins are also provided. The nucleotide sequences encoding the pesticidal polypeptides can be used to transform prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the insecticidal proteins...