ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,639, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangxi, China).
"Artificial reef" was invented by Kai Qian (Guangxi, China), Shihao Wu (Guangxi, China), Zhi Li (Guangxi, China), Heyun Yu (Guangxi, China), Yang Ming (Guangxi, China), Xiaohui Yu (Guangxi, China), Bing Liu (Guangxi, China), Yunhao Weng (Guangxi, China) and Jiangui Qin (Guangxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an artificial reef, including a bottom plate, a reef main body of a hollow structure and connected to the bottom plate, and a pipe rack arranged in the reef main body. Two ends of the reef main body are open. All sides of...