ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,932, issued on July 14, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Chengdu, China).
"Devices and methods for debris flow abrasion testing and methods for abrasion quantity evaluation of prevention and control engineering" was invented by Fan Wu (Chengdu, China), Xiaoqing Chen (Chengdu, China), Jiangang Chen (Chengdu, China) and Wanyu Zhao (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for debris flow abrasion testing and a method for abrasion quantity evaluation of debris flow prevention and control engineering are provided. The device for debris flow abrasion tes...