US Patent Issued to Zhejiang University on June 23 for "Experimental device and method for measuring motion probability of nonuniform sediment" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,351, issued on June 23, was assigned to Zhejiang University (Hangzhou City, China).

"Experimental device and method for measuring motion probability of nonuniform sediment" was invented by Zhilin Sun (Hangzhou, China), Yizhi Sun (Hangzhou City, China), Lixia Sun (Hangzhou City, China) and Lili Zhu (Hangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An experimental device and method for measuring a motion probability of nonuniform sediment are provided. The method includes: dyeing sediment of different particle sizes to obtain nonuniform dyed sediment, sticking sediment with the same grades to the bottom of a flume to form a rough pl...