ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,667, issued on Oct. 14.

"Method for cultivating functional crops using nano organic germanium and nano organic selenium" was invented by Yoon Young Gang (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea), Hwa Un Gang (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea) and Goo Wan Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cultivating functional crops using nano organic germanium and nano organic selenium, includes performing irrigation or foliar fertilization on plants of the crops with nanoscaled organic germanium and nanoscaled organic selenium, which are prepared in nanoscale sizes by performing one or two or more selected from a method ...