ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,636, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to China University of Mining & Technology-Beijing (Beijing).

"Internal and external coupling shear resistance locking control system and monitoring method of tunnel surrounding rocks" was invented by Dongdong Chen (Beijing), Shuaishuai Yue (Beijing), Shengrong Xie (Beijing), Jun Zou (Beijing), Wenzhe Gu (Beijing), Yiquan Wu (Beijing), Lei Zhu (Beijing), Chunyang Tian (Beijing), Sen Yang (Beijing), Shikun Xing (Beijing) and Hao Pan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal and external coupling shear resistance locking control system and monitoring method of tunnel surrounding rocks, compr...