ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,712, issued on June 16, was assigned to Zhejiang Tensing Science and Technology Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China).

"Data acquisition system and method applied to petroleum exploration engineering" was invented by Zhaorui Shi (Ningbo, China), Liangzhu Yan (Ningbo, China), Shan Chen (Ningbo, China) and Jinxiao Wang (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data acquisition system and method applied to petroleum exploration engineering comprises a bridge plug and at least one data logger, where the bridge plug is made of a soluble material, the bridge plug with the data logger is placed in a petroleum exploration channel and gradually disp...