ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,756, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZHOUSHAN INSTITUTE OF CALIBRATION AND TESTING FOR QUALITY AND TECHNOLOGY SUPERVISION (Zhejiang, China).

"Device and method for measuring volume of spherical tank" was invented by Huadong Hao (Zhoushan, China), Junxue Chen (Zhoushan, China), Xianlei Chen (Zhoushan, China), Haolei Shi (Zhoushan, China), Zenan Wu (Zhoushan, China), Cunjun Li (Zhoushan, China), Huizhong Xu (Zhoushan, China), Yeyong Wang (Zhoushan, China), Zhengqian Shen (Zhoushan, China), Liang Li (Zhoushan, China) and Yan Zhang (Zhoushan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for measuring volume of spherical tanks, includ...