ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,727, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Chongqing Jiaotong University (Chongqing, China).
"Method for preparing small-scale model of buckling-controlled brace device with rotationally symmetric cross section" was invented by Yangqing Liu (Chongqing, China), Ping Fan (Chongqing, China), Yiyuan Zhao (Chongqing, China), Zhiqiang Liu (Chongqing, China), Xinyu Cai (Chongqing, China), Guotao Qin (Chongqing, China), Jianguo Cai (Chongqing, China), Jian Feng (Chongqing, China) and Jianting Zhou (Chongqing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small-scale model of a buckling-controlled brace device with a rotationally symmetric cross section ...