ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,452, issued on July 14, was assigned to Guizhou Transportation Planning Survey & Design Academe Co.LTD (Guiyang, China).

"Tunnel automatic monitoring and measurement equipment and method based on fixed-point tour measurement" was invented by Qiang Hu (Guiyang, China), Bin Du (Guiyang, China), Yicheng Wang (Guiyang, China), Xiaoyong Liu (Guiyang, China), Deming Gou (Guiyang, China), Hong Yang (Guiyang, China), Junwei Chun (Guiyang, China), Mingfang Wu (Guiyang, China) and Mingjiang Dai (Guiyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunnel automatic monitoring and measuring equipment and method based on fixed-point tour measurement a...