ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,615, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Nanjing, China) and JIANGXI JIEDI ENVIRONMENTAL TREATMENT & ECOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Yingtan, China).
"Cultivation method for increasing yield of ratooning rice and reducing cadmium content and use thereof" was invented by Jing Zhou (Nanjing, China), Laiyong You (Nanjing, China), Jiani Liang (Nanjing, China), Lingli Zhou (Nanjing, China), Mengli Liu (Nanjing, China) and Ruiyun Tian (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cultivation method for increasing yield of ratooning rice and reducing Cd content and use thereof, belong...