ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,647, issued on March 18, was assigned to Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hubei, China).

"Multi-probe nuclear magnetic resonance rock soil in-situ monitoring method" was invented by Houzhen Wei (Hubei, China), Yingyao Qin (Hubei, China), Qiang Xue (Hubei, China), Xiaolong Ma (Hubei, China), Hang Ruan (Hubei, China), Xiang Sun (Hubei, China) and Lei Liu (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a multi-probe NMR rock soil in-situ monitoring method, which includes: placing a multi-probe component to a target layer in a soil drill hole, where the multi-probe component inclu...