US Patent Issued to Verdant Technologies on March 24 for "Compositions and methods for differential release of 1-methylcyclopropene" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,944, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verdant Technologies LLC (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Compositions and methods for differential release of 1-methylcyclopropene" was invented by Willard E. Wood (Arden Hills, Minn.), Joseph Frank Sarageno Jr. (New Richmond, Wis.), Joseph S. Keute (East Bethel, Minn.) and Amanda Lundgren (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clathrate of 1-methylcyclopropene with Alpha-cyclodextrin, obtained as a solid particulate product, is modified by comminuting, classifying, or both to obtain a modified particulate. When subjected to identical atmospheric disgorgement conditions of humidity and tempe...