ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,952, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Beijing).

"Method for configuring slope regulation and storage measures based on flood regulation and storage capacity and water consumption control" was invented by Wuxia Bi (Beijing), Denghua Yan (Beijing) and Cheng Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for configuring slope regulation and storage measures based on flood regulation and storage capacity and water consumption control, including the following steps: S1, collecting and organizing precipitation data of a basin; S2, constructing an optimized co...