US Patent Issued to Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower, Tianjin University on Sept. 30 for "Automatic patrol inspection and intelligent erosion defect detection method and apparatus for flood discharge tunnel" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,398, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc. (Kunming, China) and Tianjin University (Tianjin, China).

"Automatic patrol inspection and intelligent erosion defect detection method and apparatus for flood discharge tunnel" was invented by Bohui Pang (Yunnan, China), Haibin Xiao (Yunnan, China), Xuexing Cao (Yunnan, China), Hao Chen (Yunnan, China), Mai Meng (Yunnan, China) and Haodong Chen (Yunnan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an automatic patrol inspection and intelligent erosion defect detection method and apparatus for a flood discharge tunnel, and belongs...