ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,884, issued on April 29, was assigned to WUHAN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING GROUP Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China) and INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Wuhan, China).

"Rotary digging drill and amphibious tunnel construction robot using same" was invented by Shuai Wang (Wuhan, China), Aixun Wang (Wuhan, China), Qingshan Meng (Wuhan, China), Mingzhao Wang (Wuhan, China), Wenxiang Li (Wuhan, China), Tong Lu (Wuhan, China), Ming You (Wuhan, China), Xin Li (Wuhan, China), Hui Wang (Wuhan, China), Zhizhen Wu (Wuhan, China), Keyang Wu (Wuhan, China), Chen Liu (Wuhan, China), Chen Qian (Wuhan, China), Li Wang (Wuhan, China), Wei Yang (Wuhan, China), Yunjie Dong (Wuhan,...