ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,243, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Apparent resistivity measuring system and method using semi-airborne electromagnetic method" was invented by Lili Kang (Beijing), Zhongxing Wang (Beijing), Zhiyao Liu (Beijing) and Tianxin Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present disclosure are an apparent resistivity measuring system and method using a semi-airborne electromagnetic method. The system includes: a magnetic field sensor for acquiring magnetic field response data; an electric field sensor for acquiring electric field response...