ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,466, issued on May 13, was assigned to Shandong Provincial Geo-mineral Engineering Exploration Institute (801 Hydrogeological Engineering Geological Brigade of Shandong Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development Bureau) (Shandong, China).

"Monitoring method for spring protection, device, medium and electronic equipment" was invented by Yunfeng Zhang (Shandong, China), Zhiqiang Zhao (Shandong, China), Guantao Ding (Shandong, China), Wen Liu (Shandong, China), Qianqian Lu (Shandong, China) and Minghui Lyu (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring method for spring protection, the method comprises: based on an ac...