US Patent Issued to China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing on July 8 for "Tertiary cooperative compression yielding and energy-absorbing support mechanism" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,168, issued on July 8, was assigned to China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing (Beijing).

"Tertiary cooperative compression yielding and energy-absorbing support mechanism" was invented by Jie Hu (Beijing), Manchao He (Beijing), Mingming Ren (Beijing) and Di Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tertiary cooperative compression yielding and energy-absorbing support mechanism. The compression yielding and energy-absorbing anchor cables play a basic support role, and the circumferential compression yielding device can make the primary support compression yielding arch frame have a constant resistance deformation in th...