ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,721, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE VERSAILLES QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES (Versailles, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), INSTITUTUL DE ZOOLOGIE (Chisinau, Moldova) and UNIVERSITATEA DE STAT DIN MOLDOVA (Chisinau, Moldova).

"Molybdenum-based feed supplement for bees" was invented by Arcadie Fuior (Versailles, France), Sebastien Floquet (Versailles, France), Valentina Cebotari (Chisinau, Moldova), Diana Cebotari (Versailles, France), Aurelian Gulea (Chisinau, Moldova) and Ion Toderas (Chisinau, Moldova).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Food supplements for bees that include molybdenum complexes an...