ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,480, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering, Ministry of Transport (Tianjin, China).

"Intelligent dredging system for high-piled wharf and control method thereof" was invented by Songgui Chen (Tianjin, China), Jiangnan Chen (Tianjin, China), Jielong Hu (Tianjin, China), Zihao Duan (Tianjin, China), Cheng Peng (Tianjin, China), Yina Wang (Tianjin, China), Jun Ma (Tianjin, China) and Yingtao Zhu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent dredging system for a high-piled wharf and a control method thereof are provided, and the system includes an intelligent monito...