ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,568, issued on March 25, was assigned to BEIJING GREENBIO-TECH Co. LTD (Beijing).

"High-efficiency artificial combined rhizosphere nitrogen fixation system" was invented by Xiubin Ke (Beijing), Min Lin (Beijing), Yongliang Yan (Beijing), Yuhua Zhan (Beijing) and Wei Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial combined rhizosphere nitrogen fixation system includes a recombinant nitrogen-fixing engineering bacterium, which is transformed with genes for encoding a nitrogen fixation activator Neb and an ammonium transporter amtR, and a recombinant plant, which is transformed with a gene for encoding an ammonium-affiliated p...