ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,563, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Integrated test device and method for filling karst cave deposition and tunnel intermittent water and mud inrush disasters" was invented by Zhenhao Xu (Jinan, China), Xin Huang (Jinan, China), Youbo Liu (Jinan, China), Huihui Xie (Jinan, China), Tengfei Yu (Jinan, China), Yanhui Ge (Jinan, China), Peng Lin (Jinan, China) and Dongdong Pan (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated test device and method for filling karst cave deposition and tunnel intermittent water and mud inrush disasters. The device includes a mixing tank, water tank, water...