ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,900, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Crop enhancement" was invented by Stephen Wilson Skillman (Basel, Switzerland) and Myriem El Qacemi (Stein, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of enhancing a crop by applying to plants, plant parts, plant propagation material or a plant growing locus, a compound of formula (I), which is a compound of formula (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), (Id), (Ie) or (If): where each R1, R2 and R3 is independently selected from H, Cl, F, Br and CF3; each R4 is independently selected from CH3, Cl, Br and CF3; and each R5 is i...