Patents by Inventor Udo Bickers
Udo Bickers 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).
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Patent number: 11219209Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing crop damage by treating the seed of the crop with the safener before sowing. This can be done in addition to the use of crop protection combinations/compositions, in particular herbicide/safener combinations and compositions comprising thereof, which are highly suitable to protect crops from herbicide damage in pre- and post-emergence treatments.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Udo Bickers, Thomas Auler, Jan Dittgen, Herve Tossens
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Patent number: 10435372Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, in which (R1)n is n radicals R1 where the R1 are identical or different and are each halogen or (C1-C4)-haloalkyl, n is an integer from 1 to 3, R2 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C4)-alkoxy-(C1-C4)-alkyl, (C3-C6)-cycloalkyl, tri-(C1-C4)-alkyl-silyl or tri-(C1-C4)-alkyl-silylmethyl, R3 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C6)-haloalkyl, (C2-C6)-alkenyl, (C2-C6)-alkynyl or (C3-C6)-cycloalkyl, and R4 is hydrogen or (C1-C12)-alkyl, preferably mefepyr-diethyl (Compound (A1)]Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbHInventors: Erwin Hacker, Stefan Lehr, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Martin Hess, Frank Ziemer, Mathias Schmidt, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Udo Bickers, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno
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Patent number: 10301257Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, wherein the symbols are defined as in claim 1, preferably cyprosulfamide [Compound (A1)].Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBHInventors: Erwin Hacker, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Stefan Lehr, Udo Bickers, Martin Hess, Klaus Trabold, Mathias Schmidt, Frank Ziemer, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno
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Publication number: 20190077765Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, in which (R1)n is n radicals R1 where the R1 are identical or different and are each halogen or (C1-C4)-haloalkyl, n is an integer from 1 to 3, R2 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C4)-alkoxy-(C1-C4)-alkyl, (C3-C6)-cycloalkyl, tri-(C1-C4)-alkyl-silyl or tri-(C1-C4)-alkyl-silylmethyl, R3 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C6)-haloalkyl, (C2-C6)-alkenyl, (C2-C6)-alkynyl or (C3-C6)-cycloalkyl, and R4 is hydrogen or (C1-C12)-alkyl, preferably mefepyr-diethyl (Compound (A1)]Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Stefan Lehr, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Martin Hess, Frank Ziemer, Mathias Schmidt, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Udo Bickers, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno
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Patent number: 10065926Abstract: The invention relates to the use of substituted dihydrooxindolylsulfonamides or salts thereof of the formula (I) where the radicals in the general formula (I) correspond to the definitions given in the description, for enhancing stress tolerance in plants to abiotic stress, and/or for increasing plant yield.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Jens Frackenpohl, Guido Bojack, Hendrik Helmke, Stefan Lehr, Thomas Mueller, Lothar Willms, Jan Dittgen, Dirk Schmutzler, Udo Bickers, Harry Strek, Rachel Baltz
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Patent number: 9963431Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) and hydrates or salts thereof,Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AGInventors: Udo Bickers, Stefan Lehr, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Mathias Schmidt, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno, Erwin Hacker
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Patent number: 9949485Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, wherein the symbols are defined as in claim 1, preferably N-(2-methoxybenzoyl)-4-[(methylaminocarbonyl)-amino]benzenesulfonamide [Compound (A1)].Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Udo Bickers, Stefan Lehr, Klaus Trabold, Mathias Schmidt, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno, Erwin Hacker
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Patent number: 9750251Abstract: Herbicidal oil dispersions comprising (a) desmedipham and/or phenmedipham, ethofumesate and lenacil, (b) one or more surfactants, c) one or more compounds which as far as possible are polar but at the same time are water-insoluble or have a solubility in water of up to 5 g/l, from the group of fully esterified organic phosphates and fully esterified phosphonates, as solvents, d) optionally further organic solvents, e) optionally further, customary formulating auxiliaries, f) optionally water are stable formulations and are suitable for controlling weeds, particularly for selective control in beet crops.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2009Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBHInventors: Gerhard Johann, Udo Bickers, Mandy Denner, Rainer Buckpesch, Frank Sixl
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Patent number: 9670496Abstract: Methods and means are provided to modify in a targeted manner the genome of a plant in close proximity to an existing elite event using a double stranded DNA break inducing enzyme. Also provided are plants, in particular cotton plants showing tolerance to a field dose of at least 1× of at least one HPPD inhibitor, and methods for making such plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignees: Bayer CropScience N.V., Bayer CropScience AG, Bayer CropScience LPInventors: Kathleen D'Halluin, Jan Dittgen, Stefan Jansens, Frank Meulewaeter, Koen Weterings, Hal Moser, Thomas Wilde, Ruediger Hain, Udo Bickers, Linda Trolinder, Gary Henniger
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Patent number: 9370183Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of the ALS inhibitor herbicides for controlling unwanted vegetation in ALS inhibitor herbicide tolerant Brassica plants, more especially, the present invention relates to the use of ALS inhibitor herbicides for control of unwanted vegetation in Brassica growing areas which Brassica plants comprise non-transgenic mutations of their endogenous acetolactate synthase (ALS) genes I and III.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbHInventors: Ruediger Hain, Gerhard Johann, Udo Bickers
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Publication number: 20150291518Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, wherein the symbols are defined as in claim 1, preferably cyprosulfamide [Compound (A1)].Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Stefan Lehr, Udo Bickers, Martin Hess, Klaus Trabold, Mathias Schmidt, Frank Ziemer, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno
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Patent number: 9102623Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), or salts thereof, in which R1 to R4 are as defined in formula (I) of claim 1 are suitable as useful-plant-protecting agents for reducing or preventing harmful effects of agrochemicals on the useful plants and their method of preparation are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventors: Frank Ziemer, Lothar Willms, Christopher Rosinger, Thomas Auler, Erwin Hacker, Udo Bickers
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Publication number: 20140378306Abstract: Compound (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, in which R1 are identical or different and are halogen, (C1-C4)-alkyl, (C1-C4)-alkoxy, nitro or (C1-C4)-haloalkyl, n is an integer from 0 to 5, R2 is OR5, SR6 or NR7R8 or a saturated or unsaturated 3- to 7-membered heterocycle having at least one nitrogen atom and up to 3 heteroatoms, preferably selected from the group consisting of O and S, which is attached to the carbonyl group in formula (I) via the nitrogen atom and which is unsubstituted or substituted by radicals selected from the group consisting of (C1-C4)-alkyl, (C1-C4)-alkoxy and unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, R5, R6, R7 independently of one another are hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon radical, and R8 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C6)-alkoxy or substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, R10 is hyType: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbHInventors: Udo Bickers, Erwin Hacker, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Stefan Lehr, Martin Hess, Mathias Schmidt, Frank Ziemer, Klaus Trabold, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno
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Patent number: 8883680Abstract: Herbicide combinations comprising components (A) and (B) show improved herbicidal effects: (A) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds of the formula (I) and their salts, and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds of the formula (II) and their salts and esters, in which R1=is fluorine or chlorine, R2=is H or chlorine, R3=is H or NH2, and R4=is COOH, OCH2COOH, OCH2COOCH(CH3)CH2O(CH2)3CH3 or OCH2COOCH(CH3)(CH2)5CH3, where at least one of the radicals R2 and R3 is different from H.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventors: Victor Jose Marceles Palma, Allan Eadie, Udo Bickers
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Publication number: 20140302991Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, in which (R1)n is n radicals R1 where the R1 are identical or different and are each halogen or (C1-C4)-haloalkyl, n is an integer from 1 to 3, R2 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C4)-alkoxy-(C1-C4)-alkyl, (C3-C6)-cycloalkyl, tri-(C1-C4)-alkyl-silyl or tri-(C1-C4)-alkyl-silylmethyl, R3 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C6)-haloalkyl, (C2-C6)-alkenyl, (C2-C6)-alkynyl or (C3-C6)-cycloalkyl, and R4 is hydrogen or (C1-C12)-alkyl, preferably mefenpyr-diethyl (Compound (A1)]Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GMBHInventors: Erwin Hacker, Stefan Lehr, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Martin Hess, Frank Ziemer, Mathias Schmidt, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Udo Bickers, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno
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Patent number: 8461080Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous, aluminum silicate-free, highly concentrated suspension concentrates, containing the active substance metribuzin, one or more surfactants based on nonionic polymers from the ‘acrylic grafted polymers’ group, one or more thickeners based on anionic heteropolysaccharides from the xanthan gum group, one or more wetting agents and optionally other components such as antifoaming agents, antifreeze agents and preservatives and other surfactants differing from the aforesaid components.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventors: Frank Sixl, Udo Bickers, Harry Koppert, Juergen Hopert
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Patent number: 8383550Abstract: A mixture, comprising (A) thidiazuron (or thidiazuron and diuron), and (B) one or more compounds from the group of the herbicidal 1,2,4-triazinone, preferably metribuzin and/or metamitron, is suitable for use as a defoliant and/or a composition for reducing regrowth, in particular in crops of cotton.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventors: Udo Bickers, Frank Sixl
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Publication number: 20120252670Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), or salts thereof, in which R1 to R4 are as defined in formula (I) of claim 1 are suitable as useful-plant-protecting agents for reducing or preventing harmful effects of agrochemicals on the useful plants and their method of preparation are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Inventors: Frank ZIEMER, Lothar Willms, Christopher Rosinger, Thomas Auler, Erwin Hacker, Udo Bickers
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Patent number: 8138118Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof in which R1 is carboxyl or a derivative of a carboxyl group, preferably a radical of the formula —CN, —C(?X)—Y—R or —C(?X)-Het, in which X is O, S or NRa or N—NRaRb, Y is O, S, NRc or NRc—NRdRe, R is H, a (subst.) hydrocarbon radical (HR) or acyl, and Het is an aliphatic nitrogen heterocycle, where each of the radicals Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd and Re is as defined for R or a radical of the formula —OR*, where R* is as defined for R, R2 is H or (subst.) HR or a heterocyclic radical, or, if Z?O or S, also an acyl radical, (R3)n are n radicals R3, as defined in claim 1, Z is a group of the formula O or S(O)x, where x=0, 1 or 2, and n is an integer 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, as safeners for crop plants or useful plants against phytotoxic actions of agrochemicals, preferably as safeners against the action of pesticides, such as herbicides, in these plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Udo Bickers, Lothar Willms, Christopher Rosinger
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Patent number: 7981838Abstract: A mixture, which comprises (A) thidiazuron (or thidiazuron and diuron), and (B) one or more compounds from the group of the N-phenylsulfonyl(het)arylamides, if appropriate also in salt form, of the formula below: in which R21 is cyclopropyl and R22 is H, R21 is cyclopropyl and R22 is 5-Cl, R21 is ethyl and R22 is H, R21 is isopropyl and R22 is 5-Cl or R21 is isopropyl and R22 is H; is suitable for use as a defoliant, in particular in crops of cotton.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Christopher Rosinger, Frank Ziemer, Udo Bickers