ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,707, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS (Beijing).

"Shielding device of source mounting and demounting for nuclear logging instrument" was invented by Jian Zheng (Beijing), Zhongxing Wang (Beijing), Qingyun Di (Beijing) and Wenxiu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a shielding device of source mounting and demounting for a nuclear logging instrument including a device base and a shielding device body. The device base is directly placed on the ground or a well stand. The shielding device body is slidably assembled in an embedded slideway of the device base. During sour...