ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,627, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HUANENG SHANTOU HAIMEN POWER GENERATION Co. LTD. (Santou, China).

"Method for selecting booster pump for circuiting cooling water of bypass piping system" was invented by Songqing Lin (Shantou, China), Chuangwei Zheng (Shantou, China), Liang You (Shantou, China), Hongjin Li (Shantou, China), Yiming Shi (Shantou, China), Shaohua Chen (Shangtou, China), Jiongbin Zou (Shantou, China), Zeqing Wu (Shantou, China), Yuanlei Zhu (Shantou, China), Junkai Xie (Shantou, China), Xiaohui Huang (Shantou, China) and Xiaoqiang Zhang (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a booster ...