ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,046, issued on April 7, was assigned to Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (Shijiazhuang City, China), SJZ Traffic Investment Dev. Co. Ltd. (Shijiazhuang City, China), SJZ Transportation Investment Dev. Group Co. Ltd. (Shijiazhuang City, China) and Shijiazhuang Institute of Railway Technology (Shijiazhuang City, China).

"Method and system for automatically monitoring and identifying water seepage of segment joint of subway shield tunnel" was invented by Zhinan Hu (Shijiazhuang City, China), Huibin Wang (Shijiazhuang City, China), Shuopeng Meng (Shijiazhuang City, China), Yonggang Wang (Shijiazhuang City, China), Zhanliang Liu (Shijiazhuang City, China), Shang Gao (Shijiazhuang City, C...