ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,944, issued on May 26, was assigned to LUDONG UNIVERSITY (Yantai City, China).

"Monitoring system for external environment of oil well platform" was invented by Chao Zhan (Yantai City, China), Qing Wang (Yantai City, China), Jun Zhu (Yantai City, China), Hongyuan Shi (Yantai City, China), Jun Yue (Yantai City, China), Yan Li (Yantai City, China) and Teng Su (Yantai City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a monitoring system for external environment of an oil well platform, and relates to the technical field of real-time monitoring of external environment of the oil well platform, and includes a sensor unit, ...