ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,046, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China), HAINAN INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Sanya, China) and HUZHOU PLANT PROTECTION QUARANTINE AND FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT STATION (Hangzhou, China).

"Artificial nest for solitary bees and application method thereof" was invented by Zengrong Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Jin Lv (Hangzhou, China), Xin Yuan (Hangzhou, China), Wenwu Zhou (Hangzhou, China), Ping Qian (Hangzhou, China) and Wendi Wu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of artificial honeycombs, in particular to an artificial nest for solitary bees and...