US Patent Issued to Civil Aviation University of China on Sept. 15 for "Real-time monitoring device for accumulated water distribution and water film thickness on airport runway" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,067, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Civil Aviation University of China (Tianjin, China).

"Real-time monitoring device for accumulated water distribution and water film thickness on airport runway" was invented by Jing Cai (Tianjin, China), Kai Wang (Tianjin, China), Bowen Sun (Tianjin, China), Liyi Chen (Tianjin, China), Mingyue Zhang (Tianjin, China), Yuqi Jiang (Tianjin, China) and Zhiqiang Li (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time monitoring device for an accumulated water distribution and water film thickness on an airport runway includes a protective cover, an infrared thermal imager, a camera, a far-in...