ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,617, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ANHUI SURVEY & DESIGN INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES & HYDROPOWER Co. LTD. (Hefei, China) and CHANGJIANG WATER RESOURCES PROTECTION INSTITUTE (Wuhan, China).

"Construction method for flood storage area ecological wetland oriented to multi-target collaborative promotion" was invented by Zhiyuan Cheng (Hefei, China), Bo Jiang (Wuhan, China), Tao Li (Hefei, China), Fengchan Zhang (Hefei, China), Ting Yu (Hefei, China), Xiaoyuan Wang (Wuhan, China), Zhenxin Li (Hefei, China), Santao Xie (Hefei, China), Siji Wang (Hefei, China), Junfeng Li (Hefei, China) and Xinyi Zhang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trade...