US Patent Issued to Zhejiang Wanli University on June 30 for "Breeding method of new variety of hard-shelled razor clams" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,089, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zhejiang Wanli University (Ningbo City, China).

"Breeding method of new variety of hard-shelled razor clams" was invented by Yinghui Dong (Ningbo City, China), Hongqiang Xu (Ningbo City, China), Tianbao Mo (Ningbo City, China), Hanhan Yao (Ningbo City, China), Lin He (Ningbo City, China), Jing He (Ningbo City, China) and Zhihua Lin (Ningbo City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a breeding method of a new variety of hard-shelled razor clams, comprising the following steps: a. Estimating the heritability of shell hardness trait: constructing full-sib families to...