ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,669, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangdong, China) and GUANGDONG LABORATORY OF SOUTHERN OCEAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (GUANGZHOU) (Guangdong, China).

"Device and method for separating single colony in deep-sea in-situ environment" was invented by Jingchun Feng (Guangdong, China), Song Zhong (Guangdong, China), Si Zhang (Guangdong, China), Zhifeng Yang (Guangdong, China), Yi Wang (Guangdong, China) and Yanpeng Cai (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a device for separating a single colony in a deep-sea in-situ environment. The device includes a se...