ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,816, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NIPPON BEET SUGAR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo), TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo), NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (Ibaraki, Japan) and GOYO PAPER WORKING Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Nursery pot body with temporal stability and decomposition accelerating method therefor" was invented by Takuya Nakagawa (Obihiro, Japan), Yasuomi Ota (Obihiro, Japan), Naohiro Kawamura (Tokyo), Tokuya Sasaki (Tokyo), Hiroko Kitamoto (Ibaraki, Japan) and Michinori Nakamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem to be Solved] Provided is a nursery pot body having stability over time, exhibiting ...