ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,067, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Wuhan, China).

"Groove-type skeleton, sealed lining structure, underground gas storage and construction method" was invented by Guanhua Sun (Wuhan, China), Zhangxing Wang (Wuhan, China), Xianyang Yu (Wuhan, China) and Chunguang Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a groove-type skeleton, a sealed lining structure, an underground gas storage, which belong to the technical field of compressed air energy storage. The groove-type skeleton includes a fixed bottom plate, which has a length dir...