ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,555, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY (Xuzhou, China) and XUZHOU XUGONG ENERGY EQUIPMENT Co. LTD (Xuzhou, China).

"Method for determining load-bearing deformation of solid waste materials and system and device and medium thereof" was invented by Dan Ma (Xuzhou, China), Meng Li (Xuzhou, China), Qiang Li (Xuzhou, China), Jixiong Zhang (Xuzhou, China), Xuefeng Gao (Xuzhou, China), Yong Liu (Xuzhou, China), Wentao Hou (Xuzhou, China), Xiaobao Luo (Xuzhou, China), Jiguang Zhang (Xuzhou, China) and Qiang Cao (Xuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed a method, a system, a device, a...