ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,062, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HOHAI UNIVERSITY (China).
"Flow-guide device for offshore platform" was invented by Hao Wang (Nanjing, China), Jiaojie Xie (Nanjing, China), Xin Cai (Nanjing, China), Bofeng Xu (Nanjing, China), Lei Ren (Nanjing, China), Maowen Cai (Nanjing, China), Zhitong Lv (Nanjing, China), Lei Wang (Nanjing, China), Yazhou Wang (Nanjing, China) and Xingwen Guo (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a flow-guide device for an offshore platform, comprising a flow-guide column base, a ballast level control device and a spiral side belt system, wherein the flow-guide column base is located a...