US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for wireless transmission of power in deep subsurface monitoring" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,799, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston).

"Systems and methods for wireless transmission of power in deep subsurface monitoring" was invented by Jiefu Chen (Cypress, Texas), Xiaonan Shan (Sugar Land, Texas), Miao Pan (Houston) and Yong Wei (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for wireless transmission of power in deep subsurface monitoring includes a casing, an oscillating current source configured to energize the casing, and a wireless telemetry module disposed on the casing. The wireless telemetry module includes a shell, a toroidal antenna disposed within the shell and configu...