ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,612, issued on July 22, was assigned to Institute of Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Chinese Academy of Forestry (Beijing).

"Target based tidal flat wetland restoration method" was invented by Lijuan Cui (Beijing), Maosong Liu (Beijing), Wei Li (Beijing), Manyin Zhang (Beijing), Zhiguo Dou (Beijing), Xiajie Zhai (Beijing) and Xinsheng Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target based tidal flat wetland restoration method comprises: (1) determining a target, (2) constructing an ecological unit by microtopography transformation on the tidal flat wetland required to be restored, (3) applying biochar material and salt-...