US Patent Issued to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Tunnel boring machine equipped with high-pressure water jet cutting system and combined tunneling method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,004, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Shandong, China).

"Tunnel boring machine equipped with high-pressure water jet cutting system and combined tunneling method" was invented by Bin Liu (Jinan, China), Biao Li (Jinan, China), Bin Xu (Jinan, China), Bo Zhang (Jinan, China), Jiancheng Zhang (Jinan, China) and Hu Yu (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a tunnel boring machine (TBM) equipped with a high-pressure water jet cutting system and a combined tunneling method, comprising a TBM body, the water pump unit on the body, and the high-pressure water jet cutting system at the front...