ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,449, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Three-dimensional imaging method and system for surface comprehensive geophysical prospecting" was invented by Shucai Li (Jinan, China), Yiguo Xue (Jinan, China), Maoxin Su (Jinan, China), Chunjin Lin (Jinan, China), Li Guan (Jinan, China), Daohong Qiu (Jinan, China), Zhiqiang Li (Jinan, China), Yimin Liu (Jinan, China), Peng Wang (Jinan, China) and Huimin Gong (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional imaging method and system for surface comprehensive geophysical prospecting, the method includes: acquiring detection data of a plurali...