ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,284, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CCTEG China Coal Research Institute (Beijing).

"Mining converged communication system and communication method" was invented by Liya Zhang (Beijing), Chenxin Li (Beijing), Liang Wen (Beijing), Kebing Wang (Beijing), Qingyong Meng (Beijing), Wenzhen Wu (Beijing), Yuan Fu (Beijing), Yingxi Li (Beijing), Guowei Yang (Beijing), Chunxian Wei (Beijing), Biao Li (Beijing), Wanbo Dai (Beijing), Dashan Yang (Beijing), Zefang Li (Beijing) and Xiaodi Jia (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents a mining converged communication system. The system includes a first converged communicat...