ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,594, issued on April 15, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY (Xuzhou, China).

"Shaft wall pressure corrosion test system" was invented by Tao Han (Xuzhou, China), Yong Xue (Xuzhou, China), Tingting Luo (Xuzhou, China), Yu Zhang (Xuzhou, China), Weihao Yang (Xuzhou, China), Yansen Wang (Xuzhou, China), Zhijiang Yang (Xuzhou, China), Chi Zhang (Xuzhou, China), Tao Zhang (Xuzhou, China), Jiahui Huang (Xuzhou, China) and Haipeng Li (Xuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaft wall pressure corrosion test system includes a pressure bearing device, a confining pressure application device, and a seepage pressur...