ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,975, issued on July 29, was assigned to TONGJI UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).
"Rock crack information identification method and system based on variational autoencoder" was invented by Jizhou Tang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to a rock crack information identification method and system based on a variational autoencoder, and belongs to the technical field of rock mechanical fracturing tests in petroleum engineering. A micro-resistivity scanning imaging test and a computed tomography (CT) scanning test are performed on each rock specimen to obtain a two-dimensional micro-resistivity distribution ima...