Patents by Inventor LEYZA PALOSCHI DE OLIVEIRA

LEYZA PALOSCHI DE OLIVEIRA 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).

  • Methods and compositions for controlling leaf-cutting ant populations
    Patent number: 10251402
    Abstract: Methods and compositions in which botanical oils, such as wintergreen oil, and/or isolated methyl salicylate are combined with an attractant matrix (pellets) and applied near a nest of leaf-cutting ants. These oils possess fungicidal and fungistatic properties that destroy and inhibit growth of the ant-cultivated fungus—the ant colony's sole food source—thereby promoting destruction of the colony. These oils are also highly attractive to the ants, exerting no repellent effects, encouraging transport of the fungicidal materials into the nest and ensuring that the fungal colonies come into contact with the materials and suffer mortality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Inventors: Agenor Mafra-Neto, Rodrigo Oliveira Da Silva, Rafael Borges, Leyza Paloschi De Oliveira
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTROLLING LEAF-CUTTING ANT POPULATIONS
    Publication number: 20160316764
    Abstract: Methods and compositions in which botanical oils, such as wintergreen oil, and/or isolated methyl salicylate are combined with an attractant matrix (pellets) and applied near a nest of leaf-cutting ants. These oils possess fungicidal and fungistatic properties that destroy and inhibit growth of the ant-cultivated fungus—the ant colony's sole food source—thereby promoting destruction of the colony. These oils are also highly attractive to the ants, exerting no repellent effects, encouraging transport of the fungicidal materials into the nest and ensuring that the fungal colonies come into contact with the materials and suffer mortality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: ISCA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: AGENOR MAFRA-NETO, RODRIGO OLIVEIRA DA SILVA, RAFAEL BORGES, LEYZA PALOSCHI DE OLIVEIRA