ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,120, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CCTEG CHONGQING RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Chongqing, China).

"Mining hose connecting device and method" was invented by Yongjiang Zhang (Chongqing, China), Lindong Guo (Chongqing, China), Xusheng Zhao (Chongqing, China), Zhanjin Lu (Chongqing, China), Zhenfei Huang (Chongqing, China), Xianzheng Meng (Chongqing, China), Chengcheng Li (Chongqing, China), Huiming Yang (Chongqing, China), Jianjun Cao (Chongqing, China), Shuai Li (Chongqing, China), Fei Ji (Chongqing, China), Jun Liu (Chongqing, China), Xingang Niu (Chongqing, China), Zhonghua Wang (Chongqing, China), Yongsan Liu (Chongqing, China), Huaifu Liu (Chongqing, China) and Shanchao H...