ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,761, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huaneng Jinan Huangtai Power Generation Co. Ltd. (Jinan, China) and Shandong Huaneng Power Generation Co. Ltd. (Jinan, China).

"Multi-dimensional precision spot inspection method and system for thermal power equipment" was invented by Jun Luan (Shandong, China), Xianchao Lu (Shandong, China), Jie Li (Shandong, China), Yuling Wang (Shandong, China), Zhongyu Tian (Shandong, China), Rui Wan (Shandong, China), Kebing Wang (Shandong, China), Jianyong Ren (Shandong, China), Peng Sun (Shandong, China), Shuwen Leng (Shandong, China) and Xueli Li (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-d...