ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,224, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Binzhou University (Binzhou, China), Binzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology (Binzhou, China) and Shandong University of Science and Technology (Qingdao, China).

"Multifunctional aircraft deicing vehicle with steam jet" was invented by Mingming Cheng (Binzhou, China), Jianbo Gao (Binzhou, China), Gang Zhou (Qingdao, China), Daoquan Cheng (Binzhou, China), Cheng Wang (Binzhou, China), Shuai Zhang (Binzhou, China), Shuoshi Zhang (Binzhou, China), Wenqing Liu (Binzhou, China), Huazhen Sun (Binzhou, China) and Hongkun Zhang (Binzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prov...