ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,525, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CHINA THREE GORGES Corp. (China) and CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY (China).

"Water-replenishing fishway with adaptively-adjusted floating dock" was invented by Huichao Dai (Hubei, China), Junjun Tan (Hubei, China), Dingguo Jiang (Hubei, China), Lei Chen (Hubei, China), Xiaotao Shi (Hubei, China) and Yu Wang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-replenishing fishway with an adaptively-adjusted floating dock is provided. The water-replenishing fishway comprises a fishway body, wherein the bottom of the fishway body is rotationally connected with a floating dock structure, an auxili...