US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE on Dec. 2 for "Evaluation method and evaluation device for silage fermentation quality" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,217, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Evaluation method and evaluation device for silage fermentation quality" was invented by Ryo Nakakubo (Ibaraki, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ishida (Ibaraki, Japan), Masanori Tohno (Tochigi, Japan), Hisami Kobayashi (Tochigi, Japan), Genki Yoshikawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Kosuke Minami (Ibaraki, Japan), Gaku Imamura (Ibaraki, Japan), Hideki Matsuzaka (Ibaraki, Japan) and Takahiro Nemoto (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily evaluate silage fermentation quality on site or the l...