ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,766, issued on July 8, was assigned to CHAOHU UNIVERSITY (Hefei, China) and PINGXIANG BEST INSULATOR GROUP Co. LTD (Pingxiang, China).

"Large-tonnage disc-shaped suspension ceramic insulator and prestressing assembling device and method for same" was invented by Xiaoyong Xu (Hefei, China), Jiasheng Liu (Pingxiang, China), Hui Wei (Hefei, China), Fenping Chen (Pingxiang, China), Lin Xu (Pingxiang, China), Linmin Xu (Hefei, China), Zhiying Zhou (Pingxiang, China), Jianguo Deng (Pingxiang, China) and Minghua Liu (Pingxiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large-tonnage disc-shaped suspension ceramic insulator includes a ceramic in...