ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,874, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hefei, China).

"Electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical dynamic and synchronous loading device based on wedge-shaped rotating body" was invented by Liansheng Huang (Hefei, China), Shiying He (Hefei, China), Xiaojiao Chen (Hefei, China), Xiuqing Zhang (Hefei, China) and Chuan Li (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical dynamic and synchronous loading device based on a wedge-shaped rotating body. The device comprises a carrier, a wedge-shaped rotating body and a pulse power supply, w...