Patents Assigned to Bayer CropScience, Inc.
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Patent number: 10918009Abstract: An agricultural apparatus for metering and treating granules such as seeds and granular crop additives. The apparatus comprises a metering device rotatably mounted on a spray chamber, the spray chamber connected to a conveyance device intake such as an auger. The metering device is rotatable between first (use) and second (transport) positions.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignees: Bayer Cropscience Inc., AG Growth International Inc.Inventors: Danick Joseph Bardi, Robert Reekie, Timothy Strydhorst, Dallon Craig Mann
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Patent number: 10631453Abstract: An apparatus and method for metering and treating seed. The apparatus incorporates a belt conveyor or circular conveyor within a housing enabling a low-profile configuration, the conveyor having a plurality of cleats forming a series of separate voids for transporting determinable volumes of seed, and a seed treatment applicator adjacent the conveyor outlet for applying seed treatment to the seed. The apparatus and method enables the application of seed treatment based on a mass flow calculation derived from the measured volume flow through the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Bayer Cropscience Inc.Inventor: Danick J. Bardi
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Publication number: 20150359164Abstract: An apparatus and method for metering and treating seed. The apparatus incorporates a belt conveyor or circular conveyor within a housing enabling a low-profile configuration, the conveyor having a plurality of cleats forming a series of separate voids for transporting determinable volumes of seed, and a seed treatment applicator adjacent the conveyor outlet for applying seed treatment to the seed. The apparatus and method enables the application of seed treatment based on a mass flow calculation derived from the measured volume flow through the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE INC.Inventor: Danick J. BARDI
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Patent number: 8426456Abstract: A composition for treating fungus infection of turfgrass, such as snow mold infection, comprises a mixture of fungicidally effective amounts of formulae 1 and 2: and in particular mixtures of iprodione and trifloxystrobin. A method for treating snow molds comprises applying the mixture before the onset of continuous snow cover, in at least one application.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Bayer Cropscience Inc.Inventor: Edwin Vandenberg
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Patent number: 8324259Abstract: A composition for treating fungus infection of turfgrass, such as snow mould infection, comprises a mixture of fungicidally effective amounts of formulae 1 and 2: and in particular mixtures of iprodione and trifloxystrobin. A method for treating snow moulds comprises applying the mixture before the onset of continuous snow cover, in at least one application.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Bayer Cropscience Inc.Inventor: Edwin Vandenberg
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Publication number: 20110144173Abstract: A composition for treating fungus infection of turfgrass, such as snow mould infection, comprises a mixture of fungicidally effective amounts of formulae 1 and 2: and in particular mixtures of iprodione and trifloxystrobin. A method for treating snow moulds comprises applying the mixture before the onset of continuous snow cover, in at least one application.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE INC.Inventor: Edwin VANDENBERG
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Publication number: 20090306162Abstract: A composition for treating fungus infection of turfgrass, such as snow mould infection, comprises a mixture of fungicidally effective amounts of formulae 1 and 2: And in particular mixtures of oprodione and trifloxystrobin. A method for treating snow moulds comprises applying the mixture before the onset of continuous snow cover, in at least one application.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: Bayer CropScience Inc.Inventor: Edwin Vandenberg
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Patent number: 6559175Abstract: A method of protecting a corn plant from destructive insects which comprises applying to the seed from which it grows or the soil from which the seed grows a composition comprising an insecticidal 1-arylpyrazole and an insect repellent. A composition comprising the insecticidal 1-arylpyrazole and the repellent.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1999Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Bayer CropScience Inc.Inventor: Keith A. Holmes
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Patent number: 6538014Abstract: A process for the treatment of grasslands against insects, comprising applying an effective quantity of 1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-3-cyano-4-[(trifluoromethyl)-sulphinyl]-5-aminopyrazole to the grasslands.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1995Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Bayer CropScience, Inc.Inventors: Ely Vea, Francois Colliot
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Patent number: RE42394Abstract: Fungicidal compositions for the protection of turfgrass against crown and root rot are disclosed. The compositions comprise, as the active material, (a) a first active agent selected from the group consisting of (i) a monoester salt of a phosphorous acid (preferably aluminum ethyl phosphite), and (ii) phosphorous acid or an alkali or alkali earth metal salt thereof; and (b) a benzoporphyrin compound. Preferred compositions comprise 1 part by weight of the first active agent, and between about 0.01 and about 0.1 parts by weight of the benzoporphyrin compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2004Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Bayer CropScience Inc.Inventor: Laurence C. Mudge