ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,754, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (Nanjing, China), Nanjing polytechnic Institute (Nanjing, China) and Anhui Jianzhu University (Hefei, China).

"Device and method for large-scale flow solidification treatment of dredged sediment in pipeline without yard" was invented by Yinghao Huang (Nanjing, China), Chan Dong (Nanjing, China), Guojun Cai (Hefei, China) and Shuo Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a device and a method for large-scale flow solidification treatment of dredged sediment in a pipeline without a yard. The device includes a dredger,...