ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,865, issued on March 25, was assigned to Henan Polytechnic University (Jiaozuo, China).

"Coal and gas outburst monitoring device" was invented by Xu Chen (Jiaozuo, China), Hongtu Zhang (Jiaozuo, China), Zhongyi Liu (Jiaozuo, China), Peiliang Ren (Jiaozuo, China), Mingguo Hua (Jiaozuo, China), Chenhui Luo (Jiaozuo, China), Nan Li (Jiaozuo, China), Xianjie Hao (Jiaozuo, China), Duzhou Li (Jiaozuo, China), Wei He (Jiaozuo, China), Zhuang Li (Jiaozuo, China), Jinhua Li (Jiaozuo, China), Shibiao Sun (Jiaozuo, China), Shilin Zhang (Jiaozuo, China), Zhen Li (Jiaozuo, China), Gongda Wang (Jiaozuo, China) and Weiyong Lu (Jiaozuo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...