ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,419, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wenzhou University (Wenzhou City, China).

"Household perishable garbage treatment equipment and use method thereof" was invented by Xiangyong Zheng (Wenzhou City, China), Ping Ma (Wenzhou City, China), Min Zhao (Wenzhou City, China), Wencong Zhu (Wenzhou City, China), Shunfeng Jiang (Wenzhou City, China), Zhiquan Wang (Wenzhou City, China), Huachang Jin (Wenzhou City, China), Suqing Wu (Wenzhou City, China), Zhan Jin (Wenzhou City, China), Ke Bei (Wenzhou City, China), Bentuo Xu (Wenzhou City, China) and Hainan Kong (Wenzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household perishable garb...