US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Aug. 12 for "Suction-controllable triaxial test system for studying the micro-hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soils with in-situ X-ray micro computed tomography scanning" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,856, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Suction-controllable triaxial test system for studying the micro-hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soils with in-situ X-ray micro computed tomography scanning" was invented by Kwan Anthony Leung (Hong Kong) and Jianbin Liu (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention pertains to a suction-controllable triaxial test system and a method for studying the micro-hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils through the visualization of the in-situ evolution of three-dimensional (3D) microstructure upon triaxia...