ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,098, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN) (Wuhan, China).

"Method and device for determining reasonable sampling interval with three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning, and storage medium" was invented by Yunfeng Ge (Wuhan, China), Zhongxu Wen (Wuhan, China), Yitong Hao (Wuhan, China), Zihao Li (Wuhan, China), Zilong Zhang (Wuhan, China), Changyang Liu (Wuhan, China), Bin Hu (Wuhan, China), Shiyu Yuan (Wuhan, China) and Zishuo Zhao (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a reasonable sampling interval with three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning includes: collecting rock ...