US Patent Issued to Fujian Construction Engineering Prefabricated Building Research Institute on May 27 for "Beam-slab integrated prefabricated waffle slab structure and construction method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,795, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fujian Construction Engineering Prefabricated Building Research Institute Co. Ltd (Fuzhou, China).

"Beam-slab integrated prefabricated waffle slab structure and construction method thereof" was invented by Yu Ren (Fuzhou, China), Yajie Zhang (Fuzhou, China), Siyuan Chi (Fuzhou, China) and Yujun Wu (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam-slab integrated prefabricated waffle slab structure and a construction method thereof are provided, the structure includes columns, arranged in an array, and a beam and slab support element and a beam support element being disposed on each column; tw...