ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,260, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Jiangsu, China).

"Method for determining ecological flow process and water temperature process of habitat requirements of full life history of fish" was invented by Qiuwen Chen (Jiangsu, China), Jianyun Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Yuqing Lin (Jiangsu, China), Tiesheng Guan (Jiangsu, China) and Ruxia Qiao (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for determining an ecological flow process and a water temperature process of habitat requirements throughout a life history of fish, the method performs a two-factor crossover experiment with d...