ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,934, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Anhui Agricultural University (Hefei, China).

"Welfare-oriented raising house for meat-type ducks" was invented by Sihua Jin (Hefei, China), Weifeng Gao (Hefei, China), Zhaoyu Geng (Hefei, China), Lijun Jiang (Hefei, China), Chengcheng Cao (Hefei, China), Bailing Xue (Hefei, China), Zihui Zhu (Hefei, China), Xuan Zhou (Hefei, China) and Ziting Pan (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welfare-oriented raising house for meat-type ducks, including a raising house, is provided. The raising house is internally provided with a support frame which is of a U-shaped structure and arranged in a...