ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,385, issued on April 29, was assigned to HAINAN UNIVERSITY (Hainan, China).

"Soil microbial regulator for enhancing plant stress resistance" was invented by Chunxiu Qin (Hainan, China), Wenbo Liu (Hainan, China), Pengfei Jin (Hainan, China) and Chunhua Lin (Hainan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil microbial regulator for enhancing plant stress resistance, which includes the following components in parts by weight: 30-50 parts of coconut coir, 30-50 parts of Eucheuma, 10-30 parts of mushroom residue, 20-30 parts of Guayule and 0.4-1.6 parts of a composite bacterial agent. The present invention uses discarded mushroom residue...