ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,311, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hefei, China).

"Synchronous and dynamic loading method in electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical multi-field coupling conditions" was invented by Liansheng Huang (Hefei, China), Xiaojiao Chen (Hefei, China), Shiying He (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 a synchronous and dynamic loading method in electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical multi-field coupling conditions. The method comprises the following steps: applying maximum pulse current to a test object by...