ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,220, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN) (Wuhan, China).

"Multi-field integrated monitoring system and method for reservoir landslide water-level-fluctuation zone" was invented by Xinping Zhang (Wuhan, China), Junrong Zhang (Wuhan, China), Huiming Tang (Wuhan, China), Changdong Li (Wuhan, China), Xinli Hu (Wuhan, China) and Yongquan Zhang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system includes a reference station, a mobile station, a plurality of integrated sensing units, and a server. The reference station is configured to provide fixed reference coordinates to the server. The...