US Patent Issued to Sichuan University, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development PetroChina on Nov. 18 for "Seepage and acoustic wave coupling system for rock tensile testing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,304, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sichuan University (Sichuan, China) and Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development PetroChina Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Seepage and acoustic wave coupling system for rock tensile testing" was invented by Jianfeng Liu (Sichuan, China), Mancang Liu (Sichuan, China), Xiaosong Qiu (Sichuan, China), Lu Wang (Sichuan, China), Jinbing Wei (Sichuan, China), Jianliang Pei (Sichuan, China), Huining Xu (Sichuan, China), Zhide Wu (Sichuan, China), Yunhe Su (Sichuan, China), Shujuan Xu (Sichuan, China), Xin Lai (Sichuan, China) and Jianxiong Yang (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cl...