US Patent Issued to Dacheng Wu on Aug. 26 for "Structural intelligent force-measurement apparatus and in-situ calibration method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,105, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dacheng Wu (Chengdu, China).

"Structural intelligent force-measurement apparatus and in-situ calibration method" was invented by Dacheng Wu (Sichuan, China), Jianming Wang (Sichuan, China), Yijun Zou (Sichuan, China) and Yu Deng (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating an in-service bridge force-measurement bearing on the basis of accurate determination of a coefficient of friction includes steps of A1: recording a value of a horizontal or lateral force applied to a force measurement apparatus, and recording a horizontal or lateral force value of a sensing apparat...