US Patent Issued to Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 15 for "Large-space high-temperature and high-pressure true triaxial flexible loading device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,639, issued on April 15, was assigned to Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hubei, China).

"Large-space high-temperature and high-pressure true triaxial flexible loading device" was invented by Qiang Xue (Hubei, China), Xiaochun Li (Hubei, China), Hang Ruan (Hubei, China), Quan Jiang (Hubei, China) and Qingqian Wu (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large-space high-temperature and high-pressure true triaxial flexible loading device includes a cylinder reaction frame, which includes a cylinder, a lower shear ring, an upper shear ring, a bottom cover, and a top cover, wherein the bottom cover ...