US Patent Issued to Chongqing Jiaotong University on Jan. 13 for "Externally encased prefabricated UHPC slab arch bridge with concrete-filled steel tube stiff skeleton" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,988, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Chongqing Jiaotong University (Chongqing, China).

"Externally encased prefabricated UHPC slab arch bridge with concrete-filled steel tube stiff skeleton" was invented by Jianting Zhou (Chongqing, China), Yang Zou (Chongqing, China), Hong Zhang (Chongqing, China), Jun Yang (Chongqing, China), Jingzhou Xin (Chongqing, China), Jingchen Leng (Chongqing, China), Zhixiang Zhou (Chongqing, China), Zhongya Zhang (Chongqing, China), Yin Zhou (Chongqing, China) and Pengfei Men (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An externally encased prefabricated ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) slab ...