ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,003, issued on July 8, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China) and SHAANXI XITAN GEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT (Xi'an, China).

"Whole-space drilling-grouting integrated device" was invented by Shucai Li (Jinan, China), Mengtian Li (Jinan, China), Shuaixun Luo (Xi'an, China), Chunjin Lin (Jinan, China), Zhaohui Dong (Xi'an, China), Jianbo Zhao (Xi'an, China), Lei Yang (Jinan, China), Hanpeng Wang (Jinan, China), Zhaofeng Li (Jinan, China) and Shaoshuai Shi (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a whole-space drilling-grouting integrated device, comprising: a traveling mechanism comprising a drilli...