US Patent Issued to CHONGQING UNIVERSITY, CHINA CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIAL & ENERGY ENGINEERING GROUP on Aug. 5 for "Bioretention pond for rainwater treatment" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,145, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CHONGQING UNIVERSITY (Chongqing, China) and CHINA CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIAL & ENERGY ENGINEERING GROUP Co. LTD (Nanjing, China).

"Bioretention pond for rainwater treatment" was invented by Hongxiang Chai (Chongqing, China), Xinyue Wang (Chongqing, China), Zhiyu Shao (Chongqing, China), Haiyuan Ma (Chongqing, China), Jingjing Hu (Chongqing, China), Qiang He (Chongqing, China), Yanhong Xu (Nanjing, China), Qichang Ni (Nanjing, China) and Fujian Liu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioretention pond includes a pond body and an overflow weir. The pond body includes a pond wall and a lay...