US Patent Issued to Lanzhou University on Sept. 1 for "Device and method for monitoring railway health in large windy desert area" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,672, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, China).

"Device and method for monitoring railway health in large windy desert area" was invented by Ning Huang (Lanzhou, China), Yanhong Song (Lanzhou, China), Jianyong Xie (Lanzhou, China), Lihang Xu (Lanzhou, China), Guowei Xin (Lanzhou, China), Jie Zhang (Lanzhou, China), Xuanmin Li (Lanzhou, China) and Yongqing Yang (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for monitoring railway health in a windy desert area are provided, belonging to the field of equipment for monitoring sand accumulation of railway ballast bed. A spring vibration a...