US Patent Issued to China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research on March 17 for "Method and device for optimizing regulation of reservoir sediment discharging based on asynchronous propagation characteristic between flood peak and sediment peak" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,748, issued on March 17, was assigned to China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Beijing).

"Method and device for optimizing regulation of reservoir sediment discharging based on asynchronous propagation characteristic between flood peak and sediment peak" was invented by Bangwen Zhang (Beijing), Anjun Deng (Beijing), Dangwei Wang (Beijing), Wen Lu (Beijing), Hongling Shi (Beijing), Huifang Liu (Beijing), Hejing Zhao (Beijing), Qin Lu (Beijing), Zhandi Dong (Beijing), Maohua Le (Beijing), Yiqin Xie (Beijing) and Ke Ni (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for optimizing regulation of reservo...