ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,577, issued on July 15, was assigned to China Railway Economic and Planning Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Nanjing Pioneer Awareness Information Technology Co. Ltd (Nanjing, China).

"Method and system for automatically collecting multiple information of tunnel during construction period" was invented by Siming Tian (Nanjing, China), Zhengying Shi (Nanjing, China), Weike Xin (Nanjing, China), Shu Li (Nanjing, China), Jianxun Huo (Nanjing, China), Liewei Wang (Nanjing, China), Jie Lian (Nanjing, China), Guangbin Ni (Nanjing, China), Guoqiang Wu (Nanjing, China), Xinyan Wu (Nanjing, China), Xu Li (Nanjing, China) and Yiteng Zhang (Nanjing, China).

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