ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,463, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CNOOC (CHINA) Co. LTD (Tianjin, China), CNOOC CHINA Ltd. HAINAN BRANCH (Haikou, China) and HAIMO SUBSEA TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Flow rate measurement method for spiral throttling component" was invented by Donglei Jiang (Haikou, China), Yanzhi Pan (Shanghai), Haodong Chen (Haikou, China), Xiaowei Ma (Shanghai), Wentuo Li (Haikou, China), Guangfu Li (Shanghai), Juncai Jia (Haikou, China), Chunmin Zeng (Haikou, China), Lian He (Haikou, China) and Heng Wang (Haikou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow rate measurement method for a spiral throttling component is provided...