ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,046, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Fuzhou, China), SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Qingdao, China) and FUZHOU UNIVERSITY (Fuzhou, China).

"Underground engineering rock mass shear simulation test device, test method and test machine thereof" was invented by Gang Wang (Fuzhou, China), Pengju Wang (Qingdao, China), Peng He (Qingdao, China), Xuezhen Wu (Fuzhou, China), Kerui Fan (Qingdao, China), Changsheng Wang (Qingdao, China), Zhijia You (Fuzhou, China), Ning Yang (Fuzhou, China), Mingrui Chen (Fuzhou, China), Liang Zhang (Changchun, China) and Fan Lv (Changchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tra...