ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,260, issued on June 24, was assigned to HONGYUNHONGHE TOBACCO (GROUP) Co. LTD (Yunan, China).
"Metabonomics-based tobacco leaf mildewing identification method" was invented by Yueming Xu (Kunming, China), Bin Chen (Kunming, China), Jilai Zhou (Kunming, China), Haiying Fang (Kunming, China), Renjie Xu (Kunming, China), Wenjing Yang (Kunming, China), Zheng Mo (Kunming, China) and Peng Zhou (Kunming, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metabonomics-based tobacco leaf mildewing identification method, which comprises: obtaining tobacco leaf samples of the same variety, and carrying out artificial mildewing on a certain amount of tobacc...