ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,901, issued on Aug. 4, 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), Indira Sen (Goa, India), Michel Muehlebach (Stein, Switzerland), Sebastian Rendler (Basel, Switzerland), Andre Stoller (Stein, Switzerland), Daniel Emery (Stein, Switzerland), Benedikt Kurtz (Stein, Switzerland) and Anke Buchholz (Stein, Switzerland).

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