ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,877, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Method and device for identifying near-bit lithology based on intelligent voiceprint identification" was invented by Muming Xia (Beijing), Canyun Wang (Beijing), Changchun Yang (Beijing), Wenxiu Zhang (Beijing), Fei Tian (Beijing), Zongwei Li (Beijing) and Jing Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of acoustic detection while drilling, in particular to a method and a device for identifying near-bit lithology based on intelligent voiceprint identification, includ...