ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,293, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HUNAN UNIVERSITY (Hunan, China).

"Method, apparatus and program product for predicting multiaxial fatigue life" was invented by Xiaogang Wang (Hunan, China), Chao Jiang (Hunan, China) and Ensheng Feng (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting a multiaxial fatigue life. The method includes: obtaining a first temperature rise value of a to-be-tested material in a first cycle; determining first inherent dissipation energy of the to-be-tested material in the first cycle according to the first temperature rise value and a time constant; and determining the multiaxial fati...