US Patent Issued to Hunan Water TransportConstruction Investment Group, Hunan Navigation Engineering on Nov. 3 for "Construction method for reconstructing and expanding ship lock in situ" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,455, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hunan Water TransportConstruction Investment Group Co. Ltd (Changsha, China) and Hunan Navigation Engineering Co. Ltd (Changsha, China).

"Construction method for reconstructing and expanding ship lock in situ" was invented by Qiankai Zhou (Changsha, China), Ding Zhou (Changsha, China), Zhiyong Lu (Changsha, China), Bin Sun (Changsha, China), Qin Zhou (Changsha, China), Xiongcai Kang (Changsha, China), Gang Li (Changsha, China), Hui Song (Changsha, China), Wei Yu (Changsha, China), Fang Liu (Changsha, China) and Yun Zhang (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction method for re...