ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,520, issued on March 17, was assigned to GUANGDONG LABORATORY OF SOUTHERN OCEAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (GUANGZHOU) (Guangdong, China) and GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangdong, China).

"High-pressure environment biological enrichment and spray-type solid isolation and cultivation device" was invented by Jingchun Feng (Guangdong, China), Si Zhang (Guangdong, China), Zhifeng Yang (Guangdong, China), Yi Wang (Guangdong, China), Yanpeng Cai (Guangdong, China) and Song Zhong (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes a high-pressure environment biological enrichment and spray-type solid isolation and...