Patents Assigned to Bayer CropScience
  • Patent number: 12173278
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a Paenibacillus sp. strain comprising a mutant DegU lacking a functional receiver domain or a functional DNA binding domain and/or a mutant DegS lacking a functional single binding domain or a functional ATPase domain with decreased viscosity in a liquid culture. Also provided is a method of identifying a Paenibacillus sp. mutant derivative strain with decreased viscosity in a liquid culture compared to a Paenibacillus sp. parental strain with a visual screen for mutant isolates with a non-mucoid morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Jennifer Anne Collins, Jesus F. Sanchez, James L. Waller, Bjorn A. Traag, Sara K. Hotton, Tony J. Tegeler
  • Patent number: 12127558
    Abstract: The invention relates to solid formulations (especially water-dispersible granules) of tetramic acid derivatives and mixtures of these tetramic acid derivatives, to a process for production thereof and to the use thereof for application of the active ingredients present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Egger, Reiner Fischer, Klaus Purbs, Ramona Schiffer
  • Patent number: 12108757
    Abstract: The present invention relates to agrochemical compositions based on emulsion polymers; their use for foliar application and their application in aqueous crop protection flowable formulations for controlling agricultural pests, weeds or diseases and reducing the wash-off of active ingredients by rainfall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Malcolm Faers, Howard Roger Dungworth, James Richard Wickson, Kathryn Marie Knight, James Alexander Flavell
  • Patent number: 12016912
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) recombinant exosporium-producing Bacillus cells that express a fusion protein comprising: (i) at least one plant growth stimulating protein or peptide and (ii) a targeting sequence that localizes the fusion protein to the exosporium of the Bacillus cells; and b) at least one particular insecticide disclosed herein in a synergistically effective amount. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for enhancing plant growth, promoting plant health, and/or reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: Bayer CropScience LP, Spogen Biotech Inc.
    Inventors: Damian Curtis, Brian Thompson
  • Patent number: 12005107
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) recombinant exosporium-producing Bacillus cells that express a fusion protein comprising: (i) at least one plant growth stimulating protein or peptide and (ii) a targeting sequence that localizes the fusion protein to the exosporium of the Bacillus cells; and b) at least one particular fungicide disclosed herein in a synergistically effective amount. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for enhancing plant growth, promoting plant health, and/or reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Damian Curtis, Brian Thompson
  • Patent number: 11849724
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of agrochemical compositions and formulations. In an aspect, the present disclosure provides for a composition in combination with a fibril or microfibril or nanofibril structuring agent. In yet another aspect, the disclosure provides for a composition comprising: (a) an agricultural bioactive material, a fungicide, insecticide, herbicide, and/or plant growth regulator; (b) a fibril or microfibril or nanofibril structuring agent; and (c) optionally, an auxiliary surface active agent. The disclosure further provides for a comprising a composition described herein mixed or combined with a liquid fertilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Milind Singh, David A. Long, Aveen Alkhatib
  • Patent number: 11825838
    Abstract: The invention relates, inter alia, to compounds of general formula (I). The invention also relates to methods for synthesizing the compounds of formula (I). The compounds according to the invention are in particular suitable for controlling insects, arachnids and nematodes in agricultural applications and for controlling ectoparasites in veterinary medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Harschneck, Alexander Arlt, Robert Velten, Michael Maue, Kerstin Ilg, Werner Hallenbach, Ulrich Goergens, Sebastian Horstmann, Peter Loesel, Andreas Turberg
  • Patent number: 11793196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fusion protein having a targeting sequence, exosporium protein, or exosporium protein fragment that targets the fusion protein to the exosporium of a recombinant Bacillus cereus family member and an enzyme having serine protease activity, wherein the enzyme having serine protease activity is from Bacillus firmus or is a variant of such enzyme. The present invention also provides a recombinant Bacillus cereus family member that expresses such fusion protein and exosporium fragments derived from such recombinant Bacillus cereus family member. Methods of using such recombinant Bacillus cereus family members or exosporium fragments derived therefrom for nematode control are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Damian Curtis, Kevin Bugg
  • Publication number: 20230192617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to azabicyclic (thio)amide compounds and the uses thereof for controlling phytopathogenic microorganisms such as phytopathogenic fungi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (Division CropScience)
    Inventors: Julie GEIST, Anthony MILLET, Cyril MONTAGNE, Lionel NICOLAS, Valerie TOQUIN, Mathieu GOURGUES, Dominique LOQUE, Vincent THOMAS, Philippe RINOLFI, Mazen ES-SAYED (DECEASED), Alexander SUDAU
  • Patent number: 11623944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a fungicidal Paenibacillus sp. strain comprising a variant fusaricidin synthetase lacking a functional adenylation domain in the third module. The present invention also provides a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a fungicidal Paenibacillus sp. strain or a cell-free extract thereof comprising at least one Paeniserine and at least one Paeniprolixin. Also provided are isolated compounds and methods of treating a plant to control a plant disease with the disclosed compositions and compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Jeremy Beau, Daniel M. Joo, Patrick Schwientek, Colleen S. Taylor, Bjorn A. Traag
  • Patent number: 11618735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel crystal form of the monosodium salt of foramsulfuron, a method for preparing this crystal form, use thereof in agrochemical formulations and also particular compositions, mixtures or agrochemical formulations comprising this crystal form, and also a novel monomethanol solvate of the monosodium salt of foramsulfuron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Antons, Britta Olenik, Martin Krueger
  • Patent number: 11613522
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3-phenylisoxazoline-5-carboxamides of tetrahydro and dihydrofuran carboxamides of general formula (I) and to their agrochemically compatible salts (I) as well as to the use thereof in the field of plant protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olaf Peters, Klaus Bernhard Haaf, Guido Bojack, Katherine Rose Law, Anu Bheemaiah Machettira, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Elisabeth Asmus
  • Patent number: 11597724
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3-phenylisoxazoline-5-carboxamides of tetrahydro- and dihydrofurancarboxylic acids and esters of the general formula (I) and their agrochemically acceptable salts and to their use in the crop protection sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olaf Peters, Klaus Bernhard Haaf, Stephen David Lindell, Guido Bojack, Katherine Rose Law, Anu Bheemaiah Machettira, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Publication number: 20230054449
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to pyridazine (thio)amide compounds, processes and intermediates for their preparation as well as the uses thereof for controlling phytopathogenic microorganisms, such as phytopathogenic fungi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Victor CHEN, Pierre CRISTAU, Jérémy DUFOUR, Mazen ES-SAYED, Julie GEIST, Mathieu GOURGUES, Dominique LOQUE, Anthony MILLET, Daniel RACKL, Anne-Sophie REBSTOCK, Philippe RINOLFI, Yoshitaka SATO, Alexander SUDAU, Vincent THOMAS, Valérie TOQUIN
  • Patent number: 11583877
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for applying a spraying means using a portable spraying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Mayer, Christof Backhaus, Jule Vorholzer, Burak Yardim, Juan Carlos Lagonera
  • Publication number: 20220357481
    Abstract: An information processing device is configured to acquire prediction information of a weather condition outside a plastic greenhouse and cultivation information of produce inside the plastic greenhouse and predict an environmental condition inside the plastic greenhouse based on the prediction information of the weather condition and the cultivation information. Cultivation information includes at least one item of information from among the type of produce, a cultivation amount, a growth state, and a cultivation ground. A prediction model may be generated with machine learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience K.K.
    Inventors: Satoshi ITO, Victoria SMART, Mehul BANSAL
  • Patent number: 11457629
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fungicidal active compounds, more specifically to heteroarylphenylaminoquinolines according to formula (I): and analogues thereof, processes and, intermediates for their preparation and use thereof as fungicidal active compound, particularly in the form of fungicide compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi of plants using these compounds or compositions comprising thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Pierre Cristau, Philippe Desbordes, Jérémy Dufour, Christophe Dubost, Anthony Millet, Sebastien Naud, Mathieu Gourgues, Valérie Toquin, Virginie Lempereur, Francois Villalba, Philippe Rinolfi, Dominique Loque, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann
  • Publication number: 20220279731
    Abstract: An information processing device comprising an information acquisition unit for acquiring a measurement information of a relative humidity inside a plastic greenhouse. The information processing device further comprising a prediction unit for generating a feature value representing a dryness condition inside the plastic greenhouse using the measurement information of the relative humidity. The prediction unit is further configured for predicting a risk of diseases and pests inside the plastic greenhouse on the basis of the feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience K.K.
    Inventor: Satoshi ITO
  • Patent number: 11419334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of compound (A) according to formula (I) having the chemical name: 3-chloro-5-(trifluoromethyl)pyridine-2-carboxylic acid) for inducing positive growth responses in plants, a composition comprising compound (A) and a new method of plant treatment wherein is compound (A) applied to a plant, a plant part, plant propagation material or the habitat the plant is growing in to induce positive growth responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich Kerz-Moehlendick, Sybille Lamprecht, Klaus Tietjen
  • Patent number: 11406107
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) recombinant exosporium-producing Bacillus cells that express a fusion protein comprising: (i) at least one plant growth stimulating protein or peptide and (ii) a targeting sequence that localizes the fusion protein to the exosporium of the Bacillus cells; and b) at least one further biological control agent selected from particular microorganisms disclosed herein and/or a mutant of a specific strain of a microorganism disclosed herein having all identifying characteristics of the respective strain, and/or at least one metabolite produced by the respective strain, and/or at least one metabolite produced by the respective strain that exhibits activity against insects, mites, nematodes and/or phytopathogens in a synergistically effective amount. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for enhancing plant growth, promoting plant health, and/or reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: Bayer CropScience LP, Spogen Biotech Inc.
    Inventors: Damian Curtis, Brian Thompson