US Patent Issued to KOREA RAILROAD RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Jan. 13 for "Assembly type bridge lower structure having socket type elastic duct coupler and method of constructing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,989, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KOREA RAILROAD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Assembly type bridge lower structure having socket type elastic duct coupler and method of constructing the same" was invented by Taehoon Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ki Young Eum (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), InHo Yeo (Seoul, South Korea), Yun Suk Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dae-Sang Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Choon Seok Bang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sungil Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jeong Ryol Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Ki Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosur...