ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,670, issued on July 8, was assigned to Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Changchun, China).

"Method for reducing seed production of barnyard grass in paddy fields" was invented by Bo Liu (Changchun, China), Ming Jiang (Changchun, China), Haitao Wu (Changchun, China), Yuanchun Zou (Changchun, China), Wenguang Zhang (Changchun, China), Luyao Wang (Changchun, China), Yuan Pan (Changchun, China) and Xudong Zhang (Changchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing seed production of barnyard grass in paddy fields is provided in the present application. The method for reducing ...