ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,504, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Jiangsu, China).

"Floating counter-rotating vortex-eliminating device for pump station, and pump station" was invented by Qiang Pan (Jiangsu, China), Desheng Zhang (Jiangsu, China) and Weidong Shi (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating counter-rotating vortex-eliminating device for a pump station and the pump station; the floating counter-rotating vortex-eliminating device for the pump station includes a floating driving disc, a counter-rotating gear box, a reverse-rotating disc, a plane bearing, an elastic element, and a balance weight; the floating drivi...