US Patent Issued to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on Feb. 4 for "Mapping method of landslide threat range based on equivalent friction coefficient and trend analysis" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,239, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Mapping method of landslide threat range based on equivalent friction coefficient and trend analysis" was invented by Xueliang Wang (Beijing), Mengmeng Ban (Beijing), Mengjie Zhang (Beijing), Shengwen Qi (Beijing), Lihui Li (Beijing) and Bowen Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a mapping method of landslide threat range based on equivalent friction coefficient and trend analysis, which includes the following steps: obtaining physical parameters of a landslide, and obtaining a volume of the landsli...