US Patent Issued to Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on May 27 for "Static cone penetration test device and test method incorporating hyperspectral imaging technology" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,532, issued on May 27, was assigned to Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hubei, China).

"Static cone penetration test device and test method incorporating hyperspectral imaging technology" was invented by Qiang Xue (Hubei, China), Houzhen Wei (Hubei, China), Yong Wan (Hubei, China), Xiaolong Ma (Hubei, China), Hang Ruan (Hubei, China), Xiang Sun (Hubei, China) and Jiangshan Li (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a static cone penetration test device. The device includes a housing, an optical window and a friction cylinder coaxially connected. Light sources ar...