ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,279, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Shandong, China) and SHANDONG HI-SPEED GROUP Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Method and system for advanced detection and optimization of tunnel resistivity based on depth resolution" was invented by Lichao Nie (Jinan, China), Lei Chen (Jinan, China), Yong Zhou (Jinan, China), Chuan Wang (Jinan, China), Xinji Xu (Jinan, China), Jian Li (Jinan, China), Zhengyu Liu (Jinan, China), Ning Zhang (Jinan, China), Peng Bai (Jinan, China), Yongheng Zhang (Jinan, China) and Dongdong Xie (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for advanced detection and optimizati...