US Patent Issued to Ocean University of China on March 3 for "Equipment and application method for sinkage detection and active escape of deep-sea mining vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,838, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ocean University of China (Shandong, China).

"Equipment and application method for sinkage detection and active escape of deep-sea mining vehicle" was invented by Fei Sha (Shandong, China), Mingshuai Xi (Shandong, China), Xuguang Chen (Shandong, China), Shijiu Gu (Shandong, China), Rui Fan (Shandong, China), Hao Kong (Shandong, China) and Meng Bu (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment and application method for sinkage detection and active escape of deep-sea mining vehicle, comprising: the sinkage detection and warning devices and the self-escape equipment. The sinkage det...