ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,033, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Yunnan Tobacco Co. Ltd. Kunming Branch (Kunming, China).

"Method using Stratiolaelaps scimitus during float-tray-based tobacco seedling cultivation" was invented by Zhengling Liu (Kunming, China), Yonghui Xie (Kunming, China), DeKai Ning (Kunming, China), Hongming Li (Kunming, China), Youguo Zhan (Kunming, China), Xiaofei Gu (Kunming, China), Zhijiang Wang (Kunming, China), Dingguo Shi (Kunming, China), Daquan Yang (Kunming, China), Facong Qian (Kunming, China), Endong Wang (Kunming, China), Bo Zhang (Kunming, China) and Xuenong Xu (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for contr...