ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,133, issued on March 3, was assigned to Suzhou Feichi Environmental Protection Technology Co. Ltd (Zhangjiagang, China).

"Cleaning ship for water surface treatment for harvesting water plants" was invented by Cheng Wu (Zhangjiagang, China), Fengliang Dong (Zhangjiagang, China), Xiaoyu Xue (Zhangjiagang, China), Lei Gao (Zhangjiagang, China), Peisong Wu (Zhangjiagang, China), Yunfei Qian (Zhangjiagang, China), Lijing Yao (Zhangjiagang, China) and Junyi Shi (Zhangjiagang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of water surface treatment, and in particular to a cleaning ship for water surface tre...