US Patent Issued to Universite Libre de Bruxelles on May 19 for "Plant pathogen defence elicitors" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,822, issued on May 19, was assigned to Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels).

"Plant pathogen defence elicitors" was invented by David Cannella (Ixelles, Belgium) and Marco Zarattini (Ixelles, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to uses of, and methods employing, cellobionic acid or a phytopharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as plant pathogen defence elicitor. Also provided are phytopharmaceutical compositions comprising cellobionic acid or a phytopharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and applications thereof. In certain preferred embodiments, the compositions may further comprise other oxidised ce...