US Patent Issued to Sichuan University on Jan. 13 for "Collaborative testing system for elastic wave and tensile damage of rock" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,584, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sichuan University (Sichuan, China).

"Collaborative testing system for elastic wave and tensile damage of rock" was invented by Huining Xu (Sichuan, China), Tianqi Liu (Sichuan, China), Jianfeng Liu (Sichuan, China), Fujun Xue (Sichuan, China), Lu Wang (Sichuan, China), Yougang Cai (Sichuan, China), Jinbing Wei (Sichuan, China), Jingjing Dai (Sichuan, China), Lina Ran (Sichuan, China), Jianliang Pei (Sichuan, China), Hua Li (Sichuan, China) and Jianhui Deng (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated acoustic detection and rock direct tensile test machine includes a support fra...