US Patent Issued to Dalian University of Technology on Sept. 23 for "Experimental apparatus and method for interfacial shear characteristic between hydrate-bearing sediment and structure" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,346, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dalian University of Technology (Dalian, China).

"Experimental apparatus and method for interfacial shear characteristic between hydrate-bearing sediment and structure" was invented by Yanghui Li (Dalian, China), Peng Wu (Dalian, China), Yongchen Song (Dalian, China), Zhan Huang (Dalian, China), Mingjun Yang (Dalian, China), Lei Yang (Dalian, China), Zheng Ling (Dalian, China), Lunxiang Zhang (Dalian, China), Bingbing Chen (Dalian, China) and Zhi Cui (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An experimental apparatus for studying an interfacial shear characteristic between a hydrate-beari...