ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,256, issued on April 14, was assigned to Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (Beijing).
"In-situ stress measurement method based on indentation technology and machine learning" was invented by Siqi Shu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-situ stress measurement method based on indentation technology and machine learning includes steps as follows. A rock core is obtained to be processed into a sample. A shallow indentation test is conduct on the sample to obtain the indentation load-depth curve and the equivalent elastic model is derived. A deep indentation test is performed and the test data i...