ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,965, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Qingdao, China), CHANGSHA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Changsha, China) and ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Seepage erosion test system" was invented by Dongsheng Jeng (Qingdao, China), Hualing Zhai (Changsha, China), Hongyi Zhao (Qingdao, China), Yuhuan Zhang (Qingdao, China), Lin Cui (Qingdao, China), Zhen Guo (Hangzhou, China) and Junwei Liu (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a seepage erosion test system designed to evaluate soil erosion under controlled conditions. The system includes an acrylic...