US Patent Issued to JSTI GROUP, NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Bridge expansion joint structure and construction method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,360, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to JSTI GROUP (Jiangsu, China) and NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Bridge expansion joint structure and construction method thereof" was invented by Duo Liu (Jiangsu, China), Jiandong Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Xiaonan Feng (Jiangsu, China), Runbo Liu (Jiangsu, China), Chang Yan (Jiangsu, China) and Ming Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The assembly-type bridge expansion joint structure comprises a to-be-connected bridge beam end, wherein a number of the to-be-connected bridge beam end is two, and a groove platform is provided on each of the two beam ends in an extending dir...