Patents by Inventor Gerard A. Biache

Gerard A. Biache 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).

  • Insecticide based on a virus from the baculovirus group, and use thereof for the destruction of phthorimaea operculella
    Patent number: 5091179
    Abstract: The invention is a method for destroying Phthorimaea operculella by causing the Phthorimaea operculella to ingest the baculorirus of the nuclear polyhedrose of the noctuid Mamestra brassicae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Calliope S.A.
    Inventors: Gerard A. Biache, Michel R. Guillon
  • Method for the biological fight against the crop ravaging insect, Plutella xylostella, using a nuclear polyhedrose and at least one synthetic pyrethrinoid
    Patent number: 5075111
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the biological fight against the crop ravaging insect, Plutella xylostella, which consists of treating said crops with Mamestra brassicae nuclear polyhedrose and at least one synthetic pyrethrinoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Calliope S.A.
    Inventor: Gerard Biache
  • Process for the biological control of insects which destroy crops, and insecticidal compositions
    Patent number: 4668511
    Abstract: The process consists in treating the crop conjointly with at least one baculovirus from Spodoptera littoralis or Mamestra brassicae and at least one photostable pyrethrinoid.The insecticidal compositions comprises the combination of at least one of the said baculovirus and at least one photostable pyrethrinoid; doses of baculovirus and pyrethrinoid are advantageously below usual doses.Such compositions and process are used to control noctuid Lepidoptera by potentiation of the viroses induced by nuclear polyhedra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignees: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, National de Recherches du Coton et des Textiles Exotiques
    Inventors: Jacques Aspirot, Gerard Biache, Robert Delattre, Pierre Ferron