ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,633, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to HAINAN UNIVERSITY (Hainan, China).
"Prefabricated reinforced concrete beam-column connecting structure and construction method thereof" was invented by Yun Chen (Hainan, China), Jia Qin (Hainan, China) and Zhikang Chen (Hainan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prefabricated reinforced concrete beam-column connecting structure and a construction method thereof are provided. The prefabricated reinforced concrete beam-column connecting structure includes an upper prefabricated column, a lower prefabricated column, a prefabricated beam, an upper column transfer member, a lower column transfer...