US Patent Issued to China Agricultural University on Sept. 30 for "Method for reducing methane production in animal stomach" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,137, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"Method for reducing methane production in animal stomach" was invented by Guoshi Liu (Beijing), Yao Fu (Beijing), Songyang Yao (Beijing), Xiao Ma (Beijing), Haiying Yu (Beijing), Yujun Yao (Beijing), Dongying Lv (Beijing) and Shengyu Guan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for reducing methane production in animal stomachs by adding melatonin to gastric juice of the animal or feeding the animal with melatonin. In the method of the present disclosure, 10-7 mol/L to 10-3 mol/L of melatonin can reduce the methane production from...