ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,649, issued on June 23, was assigned to Oil Crops Research Institute, CAAS (Wuhan, China).

"Method for preparing low erucic acid fragrant rapeseed oil" was invented by Qi Zhou (Wuhan, China), Chang Zheng (Wuhan, China), Chuyun Wan (Wuhan, China), Fenghong Huang (Wuhan, China), Wenlin Li (Wuhan, China), Changsheng Liu (Wuhan, China) and Xiangning Tang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for preparing a low erucic acid fragrant rapeseed oil. The method includes subjecting a double low rapeseed to aroma-generating treatment, to obtain an aroma-generated rapeseed, the double low rapeseed including lower tha...