ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,399, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (Shijiazhuang, China).

"Method for constructing digital twin monitoring model for slopes based on proxy model" was invented by Wei Yuan (Shijiazhuang, China), Fangshi Shi (Shijiazhuang, China), Wenjing Xu (Shijiazhuang, China), Wei Wang (Shijiazhuang, China), Wen Wang (Shijiazhuang, China) and Xinzhan Qin (Shijiazhuang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for constructing a digital twin monitoring model for slopes based on a proxy model includes S101-S104. S101, a slope geometric model consisting of M triangular facets is constructed. S102, a first train...