US Patent Issued to Texas Crop Science on July 21 for "Sulfonamide apyrase inhibitors" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,312, issued on July 21, was assigned to Texas Crop Science Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Sulfonamide apyrase inhibitors" was invented by John Clough (Marlow, Great Britain), Tanya Sabharwal (Austin, Texas), Simon Hiebert (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey D. Fowler (Wilkesboro, N.C.) and Matthew Duncton (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are apyrase inhibitors of Formula (I):Also disclosed herein are methods for using the disclosed inhibitors, including in methods for protecting crops from pests. In one aspect the apyrase inhibitors are useful for enhancing the activity of pesticides for the protection of crops from pa...