ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,301, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Inner Mongolia University of Technology (Hohhot, China) and China Jiliang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Device for surface strengthening of metal plate based ultrasonic vibration" was invented by Yunhe Zou (Hohhot, China), Qibing Wang (Hangzhou, China), Shufeng Tang (Hohhot, China), Shijie Guo (Hohhot, China), Jianxin Wu (Hohhot, China), Haitang Cen (Hohhot, China), Jianguo Qin (Hohhot, China), Yifang Wang (Hohhot, China), Xiaojuan Song (Hohhot, China), Huaqiang Li (Hohhot, China), Yuezheng Lan (Hohhot, China), Xiaodong He (Hohhot, China), Wenzhi Zhang (Hohhot, China), Xiaowen Song (Hohhot, China), He Lyu (Hohhot, China), Xuewei Zhang (Hohh...