US Patent Issued to Southwest Jiaotong University on Oct. 7 for "Method of randomly generating three-dimensional profiles of railway ballast particles" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,126, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Southwest Jiaotong University (Chengdu, China).

"Method of randomly generating three-dimensional profiles of railway ballast particles" was invented by Rong Chen (Chengdu, China), Kai Liu (Chengdu, China), Ping Wang (Chengdu, China), Jianxing Liu (Chengdu, China), Zijun Cao (Chengdu, China), Jiayan Nie (Chengdu, China), Xuetong Wang (Chengdu, China), Hui Peng (Chengdu, China), Min Xue (Chengdu, China) and Yiling Liu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of reconstructing and randomly generating three-dimensional profiles of railway ballast particles. The method focus...