US Patent Issued to China University of Mining and Technology on July 28 for "Detection method for infrared thermal image damage area of coal rock" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,534, issued on July 28, was assigned to China University of Mining and Technology (Xuzhou, China).

"Detection method for infrared thermal image damage area of coal rock" was invented by Xiaohu Zhao (Xuzhou, China), He Tian (Xuzhou, China), Peng You (Xuzhou, China) and Tingyu Che (Xuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method for infrared thermal image damage area of coal rock includes: step 1: collecting and recording the infrared thermal image of coal rock in the process of loading destruction; step 2: processing a gray-scale transformation on the collected infrared thermal image of coal rock; step 3: denoising an ...