ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,212, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Powerchina Northwest Engineering Corporation Limited (Xi'an, China) and Lanzhou Jiaotong University (Lanzhou, China).

"Method and device for controlling engineering projection deformation" was invented by Zufeng Li (Xi'an, China), Haowen Yan (Lanzhou, China), Wenjun Zhao (Xi'an, China), Shuwen Yang (Lanzhou, China), Xiaoning Su (Lanzhou, China), Haixing Shang (Xi'an, China), Shengjie Di (Xi'an, China), Zhixuan Miao (Xi'an, China), Zhao Zhang (Xi'an, China) and Mingbo Liu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling engineering projection deformation includes: calculating,...