ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,097, issued on June 17, was assigned to Harbin University of Commerce (Harbin, China).

"Solid-liquid separation mechanism and solid-liquid separation method for grain fermentation" was invented by Na Zhang (Heilongjiang, China), Yang Yang (Heilongjiang, China), Chunmin Ma (Heilongjiang, China), Bing Wang (Heilongjiang, China), Xin Bian (Heilongjiang, China), Guang Zhang (Heilongjiang, China), Jiaduo Niu (Heilongjiang, China), Yongsheng Zhu (Heilongjiang, China), Fengxiang Lin (Heilongjiang, China), Haiyan Wang (Heilongjiang, China) and Shuang Wu (Heilongjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the...