ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,636, issued on July 8, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY (Changsha, China).

"Method for cultivating tung tree seedling by hypocotyl grafting" was invented by Ze Li (Changsha, China), Yeyao Liu (Changsha, China), Hanyu Shu (Changsha, China), Haoyu Wang (Changsha, China), Renrong Peng (Changsha, China), Hui Zhang (Changsha, China), Fangfang Ma (Changsha, China), Chengrui Luo (Changsha, China), Xiaofeng Tan (Changsha, China), Wende Yan (Changsha, China), Lin Zhang (Changsha, China), Hongxu Long (Changsha, China), Lingli Wu (Changsha, China), Xiaoqin Mi (Changsha, China) and Lesheng Li (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S....