ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,934, issued on March 31, was assigned to Anhui Agricultral University (Hefei, China).

"Method and system for differentiation of tea type" was invented by Yijun Wang (Hefei, China), Xiaochun Wan (Hefei, China), Zhipeng Kan (Hefei, China), Lizhen Hu (Hefei, China), Jingming Ning (Hefei, China) and Daxiang Li (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a tea type differentiation method and system, belonging to the technical field of detection. The method comprises: building a differentiation function by using ionic strengths of 20 compounds as evaluation indexes to discriminate tea types. According to the disclosure, the...