ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,407, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to China University of Petroleum (East China) (Dongying, China).

"Thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical coupling exploitation experimental device of deep oil and gas reservoir and simulation system" was invented by Zhaoqin Huang (Dongying, China), Xu Zhou (Dongying, China), Jun Yao (Dongying, China), Lei Yang (Dongying, China), Heng Zhou (Dongying, China), Xu Zhang (Dongying, China), Yufan He (Dongying, China), Feng Sun (Dongying, China), Xiaoguang Huang (Dongying, China), Liang Gong (Dongying, China) and Hai Sun (Dongying, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a thermal-hydrologi...