ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,603, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY (Xuzhou, China), YONGKANG WEICHUANG OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jinhua, China) and XUZHOU WEIDEAN OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Xuzhou, China).

"Optical fiber sensing method and sensing system for straightness of scraper conveyor" was invented by Xinqiu Fang (Xuzhou, China), Ningning Chen (Xuzhou, China), Minfu Liang (Xuzhou, China), Gang Wu (Xuzhou, China), Haotian Feng (Xuzhou, China), Yang Song (Xuzhou, China), Dexing He (Xuzhou, China), Chunyang Fang (Jinhua, China), Fukang Qiao (Xuzhou, China) and Yang Wu (Xuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tr...