US Patent Issued to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY on Oct. 28 for "Hydropower equipment with graded utilization of kinetic energy of flowing water" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,937, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Hydropower equipment with graded utilization of kinetic energy of flowing water" was invented by Can Kang (Jiangsu, China), Xiaoyu Jia (Jiangsu, China), Jin Yin (Jiangsu, China) and Yongchao Zhang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a hydropower equipment with graded utilization of kinetic energy of flowing water, including three steps on the inclined surface of the triangular base from top to bottom, wherein support rods are provided on the vertical surface of each step, runner one, runner two and runner three arranged ...