US Patent Issued to CHINA THREE GORGES, HOHAI UNIVERSITY on March 18 for "Movable water-permeable pile spur dike and operation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,855, issued on March 18, was assigned to CHINA THREE GORGES Corp. (China) and HOHAI UNIVERSITY (China).

"Movable water-permeable pile spur dike and operation method thereof" was invented by Huichao Dai (Beijing), Jinqiao Mao (Jiangsu, China), Hanmei Li (Jiangsu, China), Yiqing Gong (Jiangsu, China) and Jie Dai (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention has disclosed a movable water-permeable pile spur dike and an operation method thereof. The pile spur dike includes a fixed rail, a plurality of movable rails, a plurality of movable water-permeable piles, pressure sensors, flow meters and a control platform,...