Patents by Inventor Gavin John Hall

Gavin John Hall 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: 20220192195
    Abstract: The present invention relates novel herbicidal combinations and their use in controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth. In particular, herbicidal combinations of the invention comprise at least one pyridazine derivative as defined herein, in combination with at least one further herbicide that is an acetoclactase synthase (ALS) inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Nigel James WILLETTS, Gavin John HALL, Niall Rae THOMSON, Julia FELLMANN, Raymond Joseph WUERFFEL, Ravindra SONAWANE, Mangala PHADTE, Sandeep Reddy KANDUKURI, Sarah ARMSTRONG, Sean NG, Andrea MCGRANAGHAN, James Nicholas SCUTT, Sian Janet MOORHOUSE
  • Publication number: 20220159956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal combinations and their use in controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth. In particular, herbicidal combinations comprising at least one pyridazine derivative of Formula (I) as defined herein, in combination with at least one further herbicide that is a compound of Formula (II) as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Nigel James WILLETTS, Gavin John HALL, Niall Rae THOMSON, Julia FELLMANN, Raymond Joseph WUERFFEL, Ravindra SONAWANE, Mangala PHADTE, Sandeep Reddy KANDUKURI, Sarah ARMSTRONG, Sean NG, Andrea MCGRANAGHAN, James Nicholas SCUTT, Sian Janet MOORHOUSE
  • Publication number: 20220142162
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel herbicidal combinations and their use in controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth. In particular, herbicidal combinations of the invention comprise at least one pyridazine derivative of Formula (I), in combination with at least one further herbicide that is a non-selective herbicide, a herbicide that acts through the inhibition of protoporphoryinogen oxidase, or a herbicide that inhibits photosystem II in photosynthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Nigel James WILLETTS, Gavin John HALL, Niall Rae THOMSON, Julia FELLMANN, Raymond Joseph WUERFFEL, Ravindra SONAWANE, Mangala PHADTE, Sandeep Reddy KANDUKURI, Sarah ARMSTRONG, Sean NG, Andrea MCGRANAGHAN, James Nicholas SCUTT, Sian Janet MOORHOUSE
  • Publication number: 20220125052
    Abstract: The present invention relates herbicidal combinations and their use in controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth. In particular, herbicidal combinations of the invention comprise at least one pyridazine derivative of Formula (I) as defined herein, in combination with at least one further herbicide that is a pyrrolidinone derivatives of the Formula (II) as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Nigel James WILLETTS, Gavin John HALL, Niall Rae THOMSON, Julia FELLMANN, Raymond Joseph WUERFFEL, Ravindra SONAWANE, Mangala PHADTE, Sandeep Reddy KANDUKURI, Sarah ARMSTRONG, Sean NG, Andrea MCGRANAGHAN, James Nicholas SCUTT, Sian Janet MOORHOUSE
  • Publication number: 20220095618
    Abstract: The present invention relates novel herbicidal combinations and their use in controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth. In particular, herbicidal combinations of the invention comprise at least one pyridazine derivative of Formula (I), in combination with at least one further herbicide that is a HPPD-inhibitor herbicide, a synthetic AUXIN herbicide, a herbicide that acts through the inhibition of ACCase, or a herbicide that inhibits cell division through interference with VLCFA biosynthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Nigel James WILLETTS, Gavin John HALL, Niall Rae THOMSON, Julia FELLMANN, Raymond Joseph WUERFFEL, Ravindra SONAWANE, Mangala PHADTE, Sandeep Reddy KANDUKURI, Sarah ARMSTRONG, Sean NG, Andrea MCGRANAGHAN, Sian Janet MOORHOUSE
  • Patent number: 9456604
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of an aqueous spray composition comprising a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6alkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6haloalkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C2-C6haloalkynyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl and C1-C4alkoxy- C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl; and R2 is C1-C6haloalkyl; or an agriculturally acceptable salt therefore; wherein in the pH of the spray composition is from about 5 to about 9. The invention further relates to a liquid substantially non-aqueous herbicide composition comprising a compound of formula (I) as defined above and a pH adjuster, and to the use of a pH adjuster to reduce the phytotoxicity of a compound of formula (I) in crop plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Fowler, Gavin John Hall, Carl Andrew Formstone, Stefan Michael Haas
  • Publication number: 20150305328
    Abstract: The present technology is a novel method for reducing the phytotoxicity of herbicides to sugar cane plants, which comprises applying to the sugar cane propagation material, prior to sowing, a phytotoxicity reducing effective amount of a Formula (II) and/or Formula (III); or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: Gavin John HALL, Christoph WEBER, Natalie DUPEN, Jose CLAUDIONIR, Albrecht MICHEL, Domingos PEDRONI
  • Patent number: 9044014
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for protecting crop of useful plants from the harmful effects of certain pyridine derivative herbicides as well as methods for protecting crops of useful plants from the harmful effects of these herbicides and methods for combating weeds in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: William Guy Whittingham, Mark Spinney, Gavin John Hall, Natalie Dupen
  • Patent number: 8754242
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignees: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Melloney Tyte, Christopher John Matthews, Gavin John Hall, William Guy Whittingham, Jeffrey Steven Wailes, James Nicholas Scutt, Stephane André Marie Jeanmart, Russell Colin Viner
  • Publication number: 20140121106
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for protecting crop of useful plants from the harmful effects of certain pyridine derivative herbicides as well as methods for protecting crops of useful plants from the harmful effects of these herbicides and methods for combating weeds in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: William Guy Whittingham, Mark Spinney, Gavin John Hall, Natalie Dupen
  • Patent number: 8648011
    Abstract: The present invention provides a herbicidal composition comprising: (i) a compound of Formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are as defined herein; and (ii) a safener of Formula (II); or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds, wherein Ra, Rb and Rc are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Albrecht Michel, Gavin John Hall, Ian Zlexei Zelaya
  • Publication number: 20130053242
    Abstract: The present invention provides a herbicidal composition comprising: (i) a compound of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 are as defined herein; and (ii) a safener of Formula (II) or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds, wherein Ra, Rb and Rc are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicants: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC, SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Albrecht Michael Michel, Gavin John Hall, Ian Zlexei Zelaya
  • Publication number: 20120196748
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an agrochemical composition suitable for seed treatment comprising a herbicide which is laterally mobile in the soil, and an adhesive polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Zoschke, Mark Spinney, Gavin John Hall
  • Publication number: 20120094832
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Melloney Tyte, Christopher John Mathews, Gavin John Hall, William Guy Whittingham, Jeffrey Steven Wailes, James Nicholas Scutt, Stephane André Marie Jeanmart, Russell Viner
  • Publication number: 20110190126
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of selectively controlling unwanted vegetation at a locus comprising sugarcane and the unwanted vegetation, wherein the method comprises applying to the locus:—a. a herbicide of formula (I) or an agrochemically acceptable salt thereof; and b. a PS-II inhibiting herbicide; wherein the amount of component (a) and component (b) applied to the locus provides control of the unwanted vegetation and wherein the amount of component (b) applied safens the herbicidal effect of component (a) on the sugarcane. The invention further provides a herbicide composition comprising (a) a herbicide of formula (I) or an agrochemically acceptable salt thereof; and (b) a herbicide selected from the group consisting of metribuzin, hexazinone and tebuthiuron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC.
    Inventors: Gavin John Hall, Albrecht Michel
  • Publication number: 20110143938
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of an aqueous spray composition comprising a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6alkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6haloalkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C2-C6haloalkynyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl and C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl; and R2 is C1-C6haloalkyl; or an agriculturally acceptable salt therefore; wherein in the pH of the spray composition is from about 5 to about 9. The invention further relates to a liquid substantially non-aqueous herbicide composition comprising a compound of formula (I) as defined above and a pH adjuster, and to the use of a pH adjuster to reduce the phytotoxicity of a compound of formula (I) in crop plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicants: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC., SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Fowler, Gavin John Hall, Carl Andrew Formstone, Stefan Michael Haas
  • Publication number: 20100120618
    Abstract: A herbicidal composition comprising as active ingredient a mixture of pinoxaden, safeners and an additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC.
    Inventors: Georg Rüdiger Kotzian, Gavin John Hall