US Patent Issued to Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology on Feb. 4 for "Automatic scanning system for tunnel walls constructed by open-type TBM" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,469, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology (China).

"Automatic scanning system for tunnel walls constructed by open-type TBM" was invented by Ju Wang (Beijing), Hongsu Ma (Beijing), Jian Liu (Beijing), Liang Chen (Beijing) and Xingguang Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic scanning system for tunnel walls constructed by open-type TBM, to realize the automatic, accurate, rapid and omnidirectional scanning of tunnel wall. The system comprises a three-dimensional laser scanner, a walking unit, a circumferential track, several connecting rods and a remote-control unit; wherein...