ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,008, issued on June 2, was assigned to Central South University (Changsha, China).

"Electroseismic integrated monitoring method and system based on electrostrictive material" was invented by Diquan Li (Changsha, China), Qiaoxun Zhang (Changsha, China), Jishan He (Changsha, China) and Qiyun Jiang (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroseismic integrated monitoring method comprises: transmitting a current signal including at least one of: a multi-frequency current signal or a single-frequency current signal, the frequency of the current signal being determined according to a proppant, and the proppant performs telesco...