ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,998, issued on July 21, was assigned to Chongqing University (Chongqing, China).
"Automatic remote water supply system in low gravity environment" was invented by Gengxin Xie (Chongqing, China), Xi Wang (Chongqing, China), Xiaojun Yang (Chongqing, China), Dan Qiu (Chongqing, China), Pan Dong (Chongqing, China), Xianzhe Zheng (Chongqing, China), Yingbo Liu (Chongqing, China) and Jinghang Ding (Chongqing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an automatic remote water supply system in a low gravity environment, which includes a water supply unit, an environment detection unit and a control unit. The water supply unit inclu...