ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,674, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to China University of Mining andTechnology (Jiangsu, China) and Xuzhou Liren Monorail Transportation Equipment Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Automatic driving system of monorail hoist driven based on digital twin and method thereof" was invented by Zhencai Zhu (Suzhou, China), Hao Lu (Suzhou, China), Yidong Zhang (Suzhou, China), Hengzhen Hu (Suzhou, China), Fuping Zheng (Suzhou, China), Yu Tang (Suzhou, China), Kang Xu (Suzhou, China) and Yuzhu Zhang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of mining equipment, and in particular related to...