US Patent Issued to Sichuan University on Oct. 14 for "Elastic wave and tensile damage testing system of rock coupled with seepage in deep earth complex environment" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,741, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sichuan University (Sichuan, China).

"Elastic wave and tensile damage testing system of rock coupled with seepage in deep earth complex environment" was invented by Jianfeng Liu (Sichuan, China), Heping Xie (Sichuan, China), Xin He (Sichuan, China), Lu Wang (Sichuan, China), Lina Ran (Sichuan, China), Chunping Wang (Sichuan, China), Yougang Cai (Sichuan, China), Xiangchao Shi (Sichuan, China), Gan Feng (Sichuan, China), Hua Li (Sichuan, China), Xiaozhang Lei (Sichuan, China) and Jianhui Deng (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct tensile and acoustic testing machine under rock ...