Patents by Inventor Josef Ehrenfreund

Josef Ehrenfreund has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210378242
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Harald WALTER, Urs NEUENSCHWANDER, Ronald ZEUN, Josef EHRENFREUND, Hans TOBLER, Camilla CORSI, Clemens LAMBERTH
  • Patent number: 11102977
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Publication number: 20200000092
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Patent number: 10405548
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Publication number: 20180228157
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Patent number: 9949482
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Publication number: 20170071205
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald WALTER, Urs NEUENSCHWANDER, Ronald ZEUN, Josef EHRENFREUND, Hans TOBLER, Camilla CORSI, Clemens LAMBERTH
  • Patent number: 9538755
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Patent number: 8680337
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other hydrogen or C1-C5alkyl and R3 is CF3 or CF2H, by a) reaction of a compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula III wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and b) reaction of that compound with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula IV wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and (c) reaction of that compound with a compound of formula V wherein Q is chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine, hydroxy or C1-C6alkoxy and R3 is as defined for formula I, to form the compound of formula I; and to novel intermediates for use in that process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sungenta Limited
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi, Fanny Giordano, Martin Zeller, Gottfried Seifert, Shailesh Shah, Neil George, Ian Jones, Paul Bonnett
  • Publication number: 20140051736
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Harald WALTER, Urs NEUENSCHWANDER, Ronald ZEUN, Josef EHRENFREUND, Hans TOBLER, Camilla CORSI, Clemens LAMBERTH
  • Publication number: 20130253225
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other hydrogen or C1-C5alkyl and R3 is CF3 or CF2H, by a) reaction of a compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula III wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and b) reaction of that compound with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula IV wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and (c) reaction of that compound with a compound of formula V wherein Q is chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine, hydroxy or C1-C6alkoxy and R3 is as defined for formula I, to form the compound of formula I; and to novel intermediates for use in that process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi, Fanny Giordano, Martin Zeller, Gottfried Seifert, Shailesh Shah, Neil George, Ian Jones, Paul Bonnett
  • Patent number: 8536089
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a compositions and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Patent number: 8436037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other hydrogen or C1-C5alkyl and R3 is CF3 or CF2H, by a) reaction of a compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula III wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and b) reaction of that compound with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula IV wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and (c) reaction of that compound with a compound of formula V wherein Q is chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine, hydroxy or C1-C6alkoxy and R3 is as defined for formula I, to form the compound of formula I; and to novel intermediates for use in that process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi, Fanny Giordano, Martin Zeller, Gottfried Seifert, Shailesh Shah, Neil George, Ian Jones, Paul Bonnett
  • Patent number: 8377953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3 or R4 are as defined in claim 1 or a salt or N-oxide thereof and their use in methods for the control and/or prevention of fungal infection, particularly in plants. The compounds claimed are isothiazole and pyrazole derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Peter Ackermann, Carla Bobbio, Camilla Corsi, Ann Monica McGinley, Andreas Verras, Ruud Titulaeu, Josef Ehrenfreund
  • Patent number: 8357816
    Abstract: A fungicidal compound of formula (I): where Het is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring containing one to three heteroatoms, each independently selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, the ring being substituted by groups R7, R8 and R9; R1 is hydrogen, optionally substituted (C1-4alkyl, optionally substituted (C1-4alkylC(?O), optionally substituted (C1-4alkylC(?O)O, optionally substituted (C1-4)alkoxy(C1-4)alkyl, optionally substituted allyl, optionally substituted propargyl or optionally substituted allenyl; R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each, independently, hydrogen, halogen, optionally substituted (C1-4)alkyl, optionally substituted (C1-4)alkoxy or optionally substituted (C1-4)alkoxy(C1-4alkyl; R6 is an organic group containing three to thirteen carbon atoms and at least one silicon atom and, optionally, one to three heteroatoms, each independently selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, and is optionally substituted by one to four independently selected halogen atoms; R7, R8 and R9 are each, independen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Josef Ehrenfreund, Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Hans Tobler, Harald Walter
  • Patent number: 8207207
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fungicidally active compound of formula (I): as defined in claim 1; to the preparation of these compounds, to novel intermediates used in the preparation of these compounds, to agrochemical compositions which comprise at least one of the novel compounds as active ingredient, to the preparation of the compositions mentioned and to the use of the active ingredients or compositions in agriculture or horticulture for controlling or preventing infestation of plants by phytopathogenic microorganisms, preferably fungi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi
  • Patent number: 8198215
    Abstract: A method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on useful plants or plant propagation material thereof, which comprises applying to said plant propagation material a fungicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is trifluoromethyl or difluoromethyl and R2 is hydrogen or methyl, or a tautomer of such a compound, is particularly effective in controlling or preventing fungal diseases of crop plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sygenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Patent number: 8183416
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fungicidally active compound of formula (I): where Het is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring containing one to three heteroatoms, each independently selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, the ring being substituted by the groups R6, R7 and R8; R1 is hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4alkoxy, C1-4haloalkoxy, CH2C?CR9, CH2CR10?CHR11, CH?C?CH2 or COR12; R2 and R3 are each, independently, hydrogen, halo, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, C1-4 haloalkyl or C1-4 haloalkoxy; R4 and R5 are each independently selected from halo, cyano and nitro; or one of R4 and R5 is hydrogen and the other is selected from halo, cyano and nitro; R6, R7 and R8 are each, independently, hydrogen, halo, cyano, nitro, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4 alkoxy(C1-4)alkyl, C1-4haloalkoxy(C1-4)alkyl or C1-4haloalkoxy, provided that at least one of R6, R7 and R8 is not hydrogen; R9, R10 and R11 are each, independently, hydrogen, halo, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl or C1-4 alkoxy(C1-4)alkyl; and R12 is hydrogen,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi
  • Publication number: 20120065239
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other hydrogen or C1-C5alkyl and R3 is CF3 or CF2H, by a) reaction of a compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and b) reaction of that compound with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula IV wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and (c) reaction of that compound with a compound of formula V wherein Q is chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine, hydroxy or C1-C6alkoxy and R3 is as defined for formula I, to form the compound of formula I; and to novel intermediates for use in that process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi, Fanny Giordano, Martin Zeller, Gottfried Seifert, Shailesh Shah, Neil George, Ian Kevin Jones, Paul Edward Bonnett
  • Patent number: 8124567
    Abstract: A method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on useful plants or on propagation material thereof, which comprises applying to the useful plants, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of components A) and B) in a synergistically effective amount, wherein component A) is a compound of formula I wherein R1 is difluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl; Y is —CHR2— or and R2 is hydrogen or C1-C6alkyl; or a tautomer of such a compound; and component B) is a compound selected from compounds known for their fungicidal and/or insecticidal activity, is particularly effective in controlling or preventing fungal diseases of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Camilla Corsi, Josef Ehrenfreund, Clemens Lamberth, Hans Tobler