ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,831, issued on May 6, was assigned to CHINA ACADEMY OF SAFETY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Beijing).

"Grouting pipe and construction method of desert water storage area" was invented by Mingbo Chi (Beijing), Fubao Zhou (Beijing), Hongfei Duan (Beijing), Shigen Fu (Beijing), Guoxin Han (Beijing), Quanwu Gao (Beijing), Hairui Li (Beijing), Shuai Zhang (Beijing), Ziyi Zhong (Beijing), Ersheng Zha (Beijing), Chuangchuang Dai (Beijing) and Lei Guan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a grouting pipe and a construction method of a desert water storage area. An isolation layer can be constructed in any desert area to form the w...