ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,124, issued on June 17, was assigned to ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID (Guangdong, China) and CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID (Guangdong, China).

"Deep well grounding electrode and deep well grounding electrode monitoring system" was invented by Gang Liu (Guangdong, China), Lu Qu (Guangdong, China), Yi Zhang (Guangdong, China), Shangmao Hu (Guangdong, China), Taishan Hu (Guangdong, China), Minchuan Liao (Guangdong, China), Lei Jia (Guangdong, China), Licheng Li (Guangdong, China), Hong Rao (Guangdong, China), Hansheng Cai (Guangdong, China), Ruifa Feng (Guangdong, China), Hao Liu (Guangdong, China), Qi Mei (Guangdong, China), Jian Shi (Guangdong, China) and...