US Patent Issued to Zhejiang Institute of Hydraulics & Estuary (Zhejiang Institute of Marine Planning and Design) on Jan. 28 for "Run-length stripping method for generating skeleton lines of complex plain river networks" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,126, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Zhejiang Institute of Hydraulics & Estuary (Zhejiang Institute of Marine Planning and Design) (Hangzhou, China).

"Run-length stripping method for generating skeleton lines of complex plain river networks" was invented by Jinhua Wen (Hangzhou, China), Caijie Yang (Hangzhou, China), Helong Wang (Hangzhou, China), Yimin Qian (Hangzhou, China), Longqiang Su (Hangzhou, China), Qifeng Li (Hangzhou, China), Caiming Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Chenkai Cai (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a run-length stripping method for generating skeleton lines of complex plai...