ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,819, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Kunming, China) and Sugarcane Research Institute Yunnan Academy Of Agricultural Sciences (Kaiyuan, China).

"Method for tapping yield potential of saccharum officinarum by controlling time of plastic mulching" was invented by Jun Deng (Kunming, China), Yuebin Zhang (Kunming, China), Xin Yuan (Kunming, China), Jun Mao (Kunming, China), Yong Zhao (Kunming, China), Rudan Li (Kunming, China), Jingmei Dao (Kunming, China), Shaolin Yang (Kunming, China), Yutong Wang (Kunming, China) and Jing Ai (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tapping...