ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,493, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SHANDONG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SCIENCES (Jinan, China).

"Perforating, oxygenating and water injection integrated apparatus for mushroom sticks of edible mushrooms and working method thereof" was invented by Hongen Guo (Jinan, China), Qinghai He (Jinan, China), Jing Zhao (Jinan, China), Youhui Chu (Jinan, China), Yinnan Li (Jinan, China), Junlin Li (Jinan, China), Wenjing Nie (Jinan, China) and Bo Liu (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforating, oxygenating and water injection integrated apparatus for mushroom sticks of edible mushrooms includes a support component that ...