US Patent Issued to XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) on June 10 for "Aerial seeding bioremediation method for coal mining subsidence area" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,368, issued on June 10, was assigned to XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Xi'An, China) and CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) (Beijing).

"Aerial seeding bioremediation method for coal mining subsidence area" was invented by Yinli Bi (Xi'an, China), Shaopeng Ma (Beijing), Yakun Gao (Beijing), Longjie Zhang (Beijing) and Huili Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial seeding bioremediation method for a coal mining subsidence area. The method includes obtaining a topographic map of the coal mining subsidence area; grading the topographic map in terms of ground slopes; determining seeding coeffic...