US Patent Issued to Yunnan Academy of Tobacco Agricultural Sciences on Sept. 23 for "Microbial fermentation method for improving tobacco quality" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,340, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Yunnan Academy of Tobacco Agricultural Sciences (Kunming, China).

"Microbial fermentation method for improving tobacco quality" was invented by Binbin Hu (Kunming, China), Jing Mai (Kunming, China), Mingjun Zhu (Kunming, China), Congming Zou (Kunming, China), Zhonglong Lin (Kunming, China), Ying Ning (Kunming, China), Yi Chen (Kunming, China), Yonglei Jiang (Kunming, China), Ling Zou (Kunming, China), Guiyan Zhou (Kunming, China), Baoxing Wang (Kunming, China), Jieyun Cai (Kunming, China), Haowei Sun (Kunming, China), Ke Zhang (Kunming, China) and Xiaowei Zhang (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tra...