ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,162, issued on May 20, was assigned to Institute of Plant Protection and Agro-Products Safety, Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Hefei, China).

"Method for expanding propagation of Metarhizium rileyi MR006 and use thereof" was invented by Tingting Xu (Hefei, China), Feilong Wu (Hefei, China), Xiujun Wu (Hefei, China), Fei Hu (Hefei, China), Lina Xu (Hefei, China), Sijia Bi (Hefei, China), Youmin Tong (Hefei, China), Benjin Hu (Hefei, China), Xianyan Su (Hefei, China) and Yong Zhang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of microbial culture, in particular to a method for expandin...