ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,682, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Changchun, China).

"Method for rapidly restoring Phragmites australis population in degraded land through stolon domestication" was invented by Xiaoyu Li (Changchun, China), Bolong Wen (Changchun, China), Miao Wang (Changchun, China), Rumeng Duan (Changchun, China), Tiantian Gan (Changchun, China) and Rongfang Du (Changchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rapidly restoring Phragmites australis population in degraded land through stolon domestication is provided, including the following steps: at the ...