ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,520, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Wuhan, China).

"Marine emergency rescue transfer system" was invented by Fan Zhang (Wuhan, China), Chunhui Zhou (Wuhan, China), Jiahao Zhong (Wuhan, China), Cheng Li (Wuhan, China), Jing Li (Wuhan, China) and Yiran Ding (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine emergency rescue transfer system includes a water navigation robot. An attracting device configured to attach and fix with an accident ship is installed on one side of the water navigation robot. An automatic lifting device is installed on the water navigation robot. A fixing sealing device is ...