ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,112, issued on July 21, was assigned to Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Guangzhou, China).
"Flexible electrode tube for electrified rare earth mining and application method therefor" was invented by Gaofeng Wang (Guangzhou, China), Yongqiang Yang (Guangzhou, China), Jianxi Zhu (Guangzhou, China), Xiaoliang Liang (Guangzhou, China), Hongping He (Guangzhou, China), Jie Xu (Guangzhou, China) and Jingming Wei (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a flexible electrode tube for electrified rare earth mining and an application method therefor. Flexible conductive plastic tubes, wires...