ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,833, issued on March 31, was assigned to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Zhenjiang, China), MARINE EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF JUST (Zhenjiang, China) and CHINA MERCHANTS JINLING SHIPBUILDING (JIANGSU) Co. LTD. (Yizheng, China).
"Ventilation drag reduction device and marine ventilation drag reduction system including same" was invented by Jiayang Gu (Zhenjiang, China), Weifa Liu (Zhenjiang, China), Zhongyu Zhang (Zhenjiang, China), Guorong Li (Yizheng, China), Tao Huang (Yizheng, China), Jishun Qu (Zhenjiang, China), Yanwu Tao (Zhenjiang, China) and Ji Zhou (Zhenjiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A v...