ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,194, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Physical model test system for simulating strong mine tremors based on joint monitoring of microseismic and acoustic emission and test method thereof" was invented by Qiangyong Zhang (Jinan, China), Hanxiang Lin (Jinan, China), Kang Duan (Jinan, China), Yuyong Jiao (Jinan, China), Pengfei Wang (Jinan, China), Yu Zhao (Jinan, China), Changpeng Chen (Jinan, China), Zebing Wang (Jinan, China), Yong Huang (Jinan, China) and Hong Zou (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical model test system for simulating strong mine tremors based on joint monitorin...