US Patent Issued to Southwest Jiaotong University on July 1 for "Non-contact visual monitoring system and method for a flexible protective structure against rockfall disaster" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,126, issued on July 1, was assigned to Southwest Jiaotong University (Chengdu, China).

"Non-contact visual monitoring system and method for a flexible protective structure against rockfall disaster" was invented by Yongding Tian (Chengdu, China), Jiahui Tong (Chengdu, China), Yangfeng Lyu (Chengdu, China), Xiaoyu Yang (Chengdu, China), Jiaxin Chen (Chengdu, China), Lintao Ma (Chengdu, China), Hu Xu (Chengdu, China) and Zhixiang Yu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent construction and maintenance, and relates to a non-contact visual monitoring system and method for a...