ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,355, issued on June 23, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Displacement devices" was invented by Yisheng Hu (Chengdu, China), Lei Pu (Chengdu, China), Jin Wang (Chengdu, China) and Chenhui Shi (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a displacement device, comprising a plate model, a cylinder, a circulation component, a confining pressure pump, a displacement component, an acoustic detection component, and a pipeline component. The plate model includes a model cavity and a rock plate disposed in the model cavity, and the rock plate is provided with a s...