ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,631, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Qingdao, China).

"Graded plugging, monitoring and reinforcing integrated method for separation stratum grouting under single-side open conditions" was invented by Dawei Yin (Shandong, China), Zhe Liu (Shandong, China), Lei Han (Shandong, China), Shaojie Chen (Shandong, China), Shouqian Sheng (Shandong, China), Qi Xu (Shandong, China), Yiqun Zhang (Shandong, China) and Shouzhen Xue (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a graded plugging, monitoring and reinforcing integrated method for separation stratum grouting under single-si...