US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 6 for "Methods for the preparation of non-live Chromobacterium biopesticide" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,457, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Methods for the preparation of non-live Chromobacterium biopesticide" was invented by George Dimopoulos (Baltimore), Eric Caragata (Baltimore) and Raul Saraiva (Leca da Palmeira, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of pesticides. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the preparation of non-live Chromobacterium pesticides. In a specific embodiment, a method for producing a non-live Chromobacterium biopesticide comprises the steps of (a) growing the Chromobacterium in a...