ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,206, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CHINA THREE GORGES Corp. (China).

"Annular anchor installing instrument and annular anchor installing method" was invented by Lunbo Luo (Hubei, China), Changping Sun (Hubei, China), Xiao Lei (Hubei, China), Xinqun Chen (Hubei, China), Jianping Liu (Hubei, China), Haijun Jin (Hubei, China), Weihuan Zhuang (Hubei, China), Yongpei Zheng (Hubei, China), Sheng Lian (Hubei, China), Yulin Deng (Hubei, China), Juan Jiang (Hubei, China), Jiandong Xiao (Hubei, China) and Zhiji Yue (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an annular anchor installing instrument and an a...