ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,671, issued on July 22, was assigned to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Beijing).
"Methods of administering vitamin a and lactic acid to gilts" was invented by Jianhui Tian (Beijing), Shumin Wang (Beijing), Lei An (Beijing), Guo Sun (Beijing), Fupeng Wang (Beijing) and Qianying Yang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of livestock farming, and specifically provides a feeding method for gilts in batch for promoting onset of puberty and alleviating estrus disorder of gilts, which is aiming at an industrial problem that a large number of gilts are culled due to delayed puberty onset or estr...