ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,587, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nanchang Hangkong University (Nanchang, China).

"Optimization method for fuel control device structure based on additive manufacturing" was invented by Zheng Liu (Nanchang, China), Qi Zhang (Nanchang, China), Mei Li (Nanchang, China), Mingjie Zhao (Nanchang, China), Yuhua Chen (Nanchang, China), Lihong Jiang (Nanchang, China), Zhenghua Guo (Nanchang, China), Meng Zhao (Nanchang, China), Hua Tang (Nanchang, China) and Changmin Luo (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimization method for a fuel control device structure based on additive manufacturing includes: performing a basic...