ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,618, issued on April 22, was assigned to ANQING BETTER BIOENGINEERING Co. LTD (Anqing, China).

"Use of dihydroporphin derived from chlorophyll as plant growth regulator" was invented by Junhai Huang (Shanghai), Liming Chen (Nanjing, China), Letian Wang (Nanjing, China), Dongfeng Meng (Nanjing, China), Ming Li (Shanghai), Jin Hu (Shanghai) and Yong Ren (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is the use of dihydroporphin derived from chlorophyll as a plant growth regulator. Compared with the prior art, a class of new type plant growth regulators are provided; since the direct decomposition product of chlorophyll is used...