ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,285, issued on May 27, was assigned to HAINAN UNIVERSITY (Haikou, China).

"Ecological restoration method for seawater back-flowing farmland in tropical region" was invented by Xu Wang (Haikou, China), Qingping Lin (Haikou, China) and Defa Su (Haikou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ecological restoration method for seawater back-flowing farmlands in a tropical region includes the following steps: performing soil ridging on a seawater back-flowing saline-alkalized land by using a whole-mulching double-ridge model thereof, a ridge body that has been ridged is a trapezoidal structure, and perpendicular to a direction of a coastl...