ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,690, issued on May 26, was assigned to KUNMING CO YUNNAN TOBACCO CO (Kunming, China) and SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY (Kunming, China).

"Handheld soil fixed-point disinfection device for crop growth period" was invented by Yaqiong Chen (Kunming, China), Qingli Han (Kunming, China), Liqing Ge (Kunming, China), Jie Li (Kunming, China), Xingyang Xu (Kunming, China), Xueying Han (Kunming, China), Youguo Zhan (Kunming, China), Dongya Xu (Kunming, China), Fenfen Zhang (Kunming, China) and Dexun Kong (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld soil fixed-point disinfection device for a crop growth period is provided. The devic...