ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,004, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hebei Monband Water Soluble Fertilizer Co. Ltd (Hebei, China).

"Bacillus aryabhattai having function of hydrolyzing silicon and use thereof" was invented by Yitao Guo (Hebei, China), Xinglong Guo (Hebei, China), Guangli Wu (Hebei, China), Guoming Meng (Hebei, China), Ying Yuan (Hebei, China) and Yaowei Kang (Hebei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of microbiology, in particular to Bacillus aryabhattai having the function of hydrolyzing silicon and use thereof. The strain is selected from those: 1) preserved in China General Microbiological Culture...