US Patent Issued to Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences on Nov. 25 for "Method for quickly acquiring soil hydraulic properties in situ based on ponded infiltration experiment" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,931, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing, China).

"Method for quickly acquiring soil hydraulic properties in situ based on ponded infiltration experiment" 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: "A method for quickly acquiring soil hydraulic properties in situ based on a ponded infiltration experiment is provided. The method adopts a novel derivation method, and is based on a Richards' equation and a Brooks-Corey model to derive an analytical sol...