ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,775, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc (Kunming, China) and Hohai University (Nanjing, China).

"Time-series image description method for dam defects based on local self-attention" was invented by Hongqi Ma (Yunnan, China), Haibin Xiao (Yunnan, China), Yingchi Mao (Yunnan, China), Fudong Chi (Yunnan, China), Rongzhi Qi (Yunnan, China), Bohui Pang (Yunnan, China), Xiaofeng Zhou (Yunnan, China), Hao Chen (Yunnan, China), Jiyuan Yu (Yunnan, China) and Huan Zhao (Yunnan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-series image description method for dam defects based on local self-attention mechanism ...