ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,116, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Method and system for generating flood early warning information in smart city based on internet of things" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Yong Li (Chengdu, China), Bin Liu (Chengdu, China), Yaqiang Quan (Chengdu, China) and Yongzeng Liang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and system for generating flood early warning information in smart city based on Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes: obtaining precipitation information of a target area within a target ti...