ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,845, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, MEE (Nanjing, China).
"Automatic disinfection machine for plant tissue culture explants" was invented by Xiao Zheng (Nanjing, China), Yaping Hu (Nanjing, China), Xiaomin Ge (Nanjing, China), Hui Ding (Nanjing, China), Shuifei Chen (Nanjing, China) and Xu Zhou (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic disinfection machine for plant tissue culture explants, comprising a water tank, a disinfection basket, solution bottles, pumps and a valve, wherein the solution bottles are arranged in multiple and respectively filled with disinfectant...