US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Oct. 14 for "Method for determining unconfined compressive strength of soil" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,771, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for determining unconfined compressive strength of soil" was invented by Yakubu Sani Wudil (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Al-Osta (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Omar S. Baghabra Al-Amoudi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad A. Gondal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Osama Atef Al Najjar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field portable device for determining the unconfined compressive strength of a soil sample includes a sample holder, a heating device, a scale, a spectrometer, and a microprocessor. Th...