ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,469, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Ultrasonic extraction device for plant polyphenols" was invented by Donghong Liu (Hangzhou, China), Wenjun Wang (Hangzhou, China), Jiaheng Li (Hangzhou, China), Jianwei Zhou (Hangzhou, China), Ruiling Lv (Hangzhou, China) and Enbo Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic extraction device for plant polyphenols is provided, which includes an ultrasonic processor system, configured for conducting ultrasonic-assisted enzymatic hydrolysis on mixed cellulase solution and plant raw material suspension to extract plant polyphenols; a reac...