ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,566, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to W. Neudorff GMBH KG (Emmerthal, Germany).

"Enhanced herbicidal compositions of transition metal chelates" was invented by Reinhard Arndt (Hannover, Germany), Andreas Prokop (Hannover, Germany), George Puritch (Vancouver, Canada), Chandanie W. Arachchige (Vancouver, Canada) and Deepal Samarajeewa (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising a transition metal chelate; and a potassium-containing salt and/or a sodium-containing salt; wherein said composition has enhanced herbicidal activity when compared with an otherwise i...