ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,178, issued on June 23, was assigned to Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Seafloor observation network-based subsurface buoy device with real-time power supplying and high-speed data transmitting" was invented by Fenghua Li (Beijing), Yuankai Zhang (Beijing), Yonggang Guo (Beijing), Jing Du (Beijing), Yongguo Chang (Beijing), Yong Qiu (Beijing), Lei Zhang (Beijing), Jie Yang (Beijing), Wei Jiang (Beijing) and Sujing Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seafloor observation network-based subsurface buoy device with real-time power supplying and high-speed data transmitting is provided. The subsu...