ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,595, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Zhenjiang, China).

"Test-bed for pump as turbine transition process based on digital twinning" was invented by Wenjie Wang (Zhenjiang, China), Chenying Zhang (Zhenjiang, China), Ji Pei (Zhenjiang, China), Shouqi Yuan (Zhenjiang, China), Yanjun Li (Zhenjiang, China), Xingcheng Gan (Zhenjiang, China) and Jia Chen (Zhenjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test-bed for a pump as turbine transition process based on digital twinning is provided, including a PAT physical model used for controlling the pump as turbine transition process and collecting data of the pump as turb...