ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,364, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CHANGJIANG RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHANGJIANG WATER RESOURCES COMMISSION OF THE MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES (Hubei, China).

"Flow guiding sediment bypass tunnel gate structure with self-adaptive inlet adjustment" was invented by Yinjun Zhou (Hubei, China), Junfeng Han (Hubei, China), Zhongwu Jin (Hubei, China), Xiaobin Liu (Hubei, China), Jiasheng Wang (Hubei, China), Zhijing Li (Hubei, China), Yiwu Chen (Hubei, China), Yuqin Zhang (Hubei, China), Chao Guo (Hubei, China), Shuai Zhu (Hubei, China), Xiuqin Ma (Hubei, China), Meng Tong (Hubei, China) and Junxiao Ma (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pate...