ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,687, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CHINA RAILWAY DESIGN GROUP Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Acquisition apparatus, acquisition system, and control method for multi-source aerial remote sensing data" was invented by Guiwei Liu (Tianjin, China), Qihao Sun (Tianjin, China), Liguo Zhang (Tianjin, China), Hu Cao (Tianjin, China), Qingguo Cui (Tianjin, China), Zelian Chen (Tianjin, China), Jing Gao (Tianjin, China), Fei Wang (Tianjin, China), Xuanyu Zhang (Tianjin, China), Guangxue Ren (Tianjin, China), Feng Zuo (Tianjin, China) and Jingtao Li (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquisition apparatus, an acquisition syst...