ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,594, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY (Wuxi, China).

"Method for extending shelf life of germ remained rice by moderate moistening and electron beam irradiation" was invented by Ren Wang (Wuxi, China), Yudan Jin (Wuxi, China), Haibo Li (Wuxi, China), Wei Feng (Wuxi, China), Tao Wang (Wuxi, China) and Hao Zhang (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extending shelf life of germ remained rice includes evenly spreading the germ remained rice on a sheet tray, and moderately moistening the germ remained rice, packing the germ remained rice moistened, and irradiating the germ remained rice with an elec...