US Patent Issued to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Method for preparing selenium-water-soluble polysaccharide hydrogel and use thereof in selenium enrichment in plants" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,728, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Method for preparing selenium-water-soluble polysaccharide hydrogel and use thereof in selenium enrichment in plants" was invented by Na Li (Suzhou, China), Jian Zhu (Suzhou, China) and Lu Cao (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides preparation of a selenium-water-soluble high-molecular polysaccharide hydrogel and use thereof. The preparation method includes: (1) water solution of polysaccharide and seleno-compound was prepared by heating the mixture with stirring; and (2) the solution was cooled with standing within shaped conta...