ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,461, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Pesticidally active heterocyclic derivatives with sulfur and sulfoximine containing substituents" was invented by Vikas Sikervar (Goa, India), Indira Sen (Goa, India), Michel Muehlebach (Stein, Switzerland), Sebastian Rendler (Basel, Switzerland), Andre Stoller (Stein, Switzerland), Daniel Emery (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 the substituents are as defined in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates t...