ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,298, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CCTEG TAIYUAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Shanxi, China) and SHANXI TIANDI COAL MINING MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Shanxi, China).

"Bolter miner and tunneling system" was invented by Hong Wang (Shanxi, China), Bukang Wang (Shanxi, China), Dejun Song (Shanxi, China), Kai Ma (Shanxi, China), Jianwei Jia (Shanxi, China), Yongcheng Ding (Shanxi, China), Xiaofeng Zhang (Shanxi, China), Faquan Li (Shanxi, China), Qiang Ma (Shanxi, China), Yanhua Qiao (Shanxi, China), Ningning Wang (Shanxi, China), Gehui Xie (Shanxi, China), Feng Liu (Shanxi, China), Sen Xu (Shanxi, China), Qiang Zhang (Shanxi, China), Qinghe Chen (Shanxi, China), Hao Wang (Shanxi, China), Dong So...