ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,359, issued on July 29, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Determination of path arrangement of infrastructure link network with trunk-and-branch topology" was invented by Tianjiao Wang (Shandong, China), Bill Moran (Vic, Australia), Zengfu Wang (Shanxi, China), Moshe Zukerman (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Xinyu Wang (Shanxi, China) and Chao Guo (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining a path arrangement of an infrastructure link network with a trunk-and-branch topology. The method includes: modelling a geographic terrain including three or more geograph...