US Patent Issued to GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY on Aug. 19 for "Self-resetting buckling-restrained brace and energy consumption method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,158, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY (Guangdong, China).

"Self-resetting buckling-restrained brace and energy consumption method therefor" was invented by Ping Tan (Guangzhou, China), Xiaofeng Zhao (Guangzhou, China), Yang Li (Guangzhou, China), Lin Chen (Guangzhou, China), Yaoqiu Long (Guangzhou, China) and Fulin Zhou (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a self-resetting buckling-restrained brace, comprising a central positioning plate and secondary buckling-restrained units located on the left and right sides; the secondary buckling-restrained units each comprise a connec...