US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on March 18 for "Multiphase flow cylindrical model test system and test method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,509, issued on March 18, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Wuhan, China).

"Multiphase flow cylindrical model test system and test method" was invented by Qiang Xue (Wuhan, China), Zhixiang Chen (Wuhan, China), Yong Wan (Wuhan, China), Mingli Wei (Wuhan, China), Jiangshan Li (Wuhan, China), Lei Liu (Wuhan, China), Yijun Chen (Wuhan, China) and Yuan Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiphase flow cylindrical model test system includes a loading structure, a multiphase flow displacement model bucket, a data acquisition and analysis system, a flexible seepage model bucke...