ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,802, issued on July 1, was assigned to EAST CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Shanghai) and HUIZHOU YICHEN NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Huizhou, China).
"Intercepting net based on reversing current motion at river bottom" was invented by Jiangao Shi (Shanghai), Shiqi Cheng (Shanghai) and Wenyang Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intercepting net based on reversing current motion at a river bottom, including a net body connected to ropes arranged in a crisscross manner, an anti-floating and anti-drifting rope and a mounting frame. A top of the net body is connected to a main rope and an auxiliary rope arranged side...