ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,073, issued on May 20, was assigned to Northeastern University (Shenyang, China).
"Ultra-large physical simulation facility for deep engineering disasters" was invented by Xiating Feng (Shenyang, China), Xiwei Zhang (Shenyang, China) and Lei Shi (Shenyang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ultra-large physical simulation facility for deep engineering disasters, including a long-time large-load loading system for a geological model, a 3D printing system of a deep oil, gas and water multiphase multi-component complex geological body model, a high-temperature-chemical-multiphase fluid collaborative injection, monitorin...