ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,897, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS (Beijing).

"Real-time quantitative characterization method, equipment and medium for rock mass evolution" was invented by Zan Wang (Beijing), Shengwen Qi (Beijing), Bowen Zheng (Beijing), Wang Zhang (Beijing), Bo Wan (Beijing), Xiaokun Hou (Beijing), Wei Lu (Beijing), Guangming Luo (Beijing), Lina Ma (Beijing), Yongchao Li (Beijing), Guoliang Li (Beijing), Yuran Zhang (Beijing), Weiwei Zhu (Beijing), Wenjie Hao (Beijing), Songfeng Guo (Beijing), Yu Zou (Beijing), Jianing Cong (Beijing), Chao Jin (Beijing), Tianming Huang (Beijing) and Yanlong Kong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the...