ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,914, issued on July 8, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Wuhan, China).
"Stereoscopic identification method and apparatus for disturbance stress evolution process of underground cave surrounding rock" was invented by Shaojun Li (Wuhan, China), Guangliang Feng (Wuhan, China) and Minzong Zheng (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stereoscopic identification method and apparatus for disturbance stress evolution process of underground cave surrounding rock perform a numerical inverse analysis of three-dimensional stereoscopic disturbance stress of a surrounding rock of the target ...