ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,359, issued on March 11, was assigned to QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Shandong, China) and QINGDAO DOGHUIQUAN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Road network balanced drainage method aimed at reducing urban waterlogging" was invented by Jungang Wang (Qingdao, China), Lu Wang (Qingdao, China), Miaomiao Chen (Dezhou, China), Hui Jiang (Qingdao, China), Chong Li (Qingdao, China), Naiyou Liu (Jiaozhou, China), Dawu Nian (Dxing'anling, China), Feida Chen (Qingdao, China), Yifan Li (Tangshan, China), Renyu Xu (Dezhou, China), Xuefeng Zhang (Rongcheng, China), Chaoyang Wang (Heze, China) and Xin Yao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark...