ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,538, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Yantai Chungway New Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Yantai, China).

"Fire prevention and control system for rechargeable battery cabin of ship" was invented by Hao Lin (Yantai, China), Lilei Zhang (Yantai, China), Mingming Li (Yantai, China), Hualei Wang (Yantai, China), Yang Wang (Yantai, China), Xingbin Niu (Yantai, China), Yuanyuan Tian (Yantai, China) and Haoji Sun (Yantai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fire prevention and control system for a rechargeable battery cabin of a ship, including a detection apparatus, a fire suppression apparatus, and a control apparatus. The d...