ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,734, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Liu Yufang (Shanghai).

"Method for co-producing molded food-container pulp and fulvic acid from cotton stalk" was invented by Bo Bai (Shanghai), Jiani Bai (Shanghai), Dong Wang (Shanghai), Yufang Liu (Shanghai) and Xiaofei Shi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for co-producing molded food-container pulp and fulvic acid from cotton stalk, which belongs to the field of comprehensive utilization of crop straw resources. The method adopts digesting, defibering and bio-treating measures to remove pectin and hemicellulose and other anionic waste generating sources in cotton straw raw ...