ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,258, issued on July 15, was assigned to CHINA THREE GORGES Corp. (China) and CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH (China).

"Method for predicting and controlling awater level of a series water conveyance canal on a basis of a fuzzy neural network" was invented by Hao Wang (Beijing), Xiaohui Lei (Beijing), Huichao Dai (Beijing), Lingzhong Kong (Beijing), Zhao Zhang (Beijing), Chao Wang (Beijing), Heng Yang (Beijing), Yongnan Zhu (Beijing) and Zhaohui Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting and controlling a water level of a series water conveyance canal on the basis of a fuzzy neural ...