ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,222, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hunan University (Changsha, China).

"Method for flexible coordinated operation of urban distribution network and watershed network" was invented by Bin Zhou (Changsha, China), Zhihao Hua (Changsha, China), Zhikang Shuai (Changsha, China), Quan Zhou (Changsha, China), Jiayong Li (Changsha, China), Cong Zhang (Changsha, China) and Yingping Cao (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for flexible coordinated operation of an urban distribution network and a watershed network, including: constructing a watershed network dynamic operation model; constructing a river water storage mod...