US Patent Issued to China Merchants Marine Offshore Research Institute, China Merchants Deepsea Research Institute (Sanya), China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) on Aug. 19 for "Drag-reducing separator plate and design method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,343, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to China Merchants Marine Offshore Research Institute Co. (Shenzhen, China), China Merchants Deepsea Research Institute (Sanya) Co. (Shenzhen, China) and China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Drag-reducing separator plate and design method therefor" was invented by Jiancheng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Xiuzhan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Shipeng Wang (Shenzhen, China), Xingqun Li (Nantong, China) and Lixin Xu (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drag-reducing separator plate for a moonpool, wherein the upper part thereof is a straight wall perpendicular to the se...