ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,843, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing, China).
"Method for predicting soil hydraulic properties based on upward infiltration experiment of cutting ring soil sample" was invented by Donghao Ma (Nanjing, China), Sicong Wu (Nanjing, China), Jiabao Zhang (Nanjing, China) and Lianghong Chen (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for predicting soil hydraulic properties based on an upward infiltration experiment of a cutting ring soil sample. According to the new design approach, based on an inverse process of one-dimensiona...