ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,142, issued on May 20, was assigned to Northeastern University (Shenyang, China).

"Clamp of elastic box of stiff true-triaxial testing system and displacement monitoring method for cuboid specimens" was invented by Benguo He (Shenyang, China), Xiating Feng (Shenyang, China), Rongli Zhen (Shenyang, China), Xiwei Zhang (Shenyang, China), Chengxiang Yang (Shenyang, China), Mian Tian (Shenyang, China), Hongpu Li (Shenyang, China) and Hongyuan Fu (Shenyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a clamp of elastic box of stiff true-triaxial testing system and a displacement monitoring method for cuboid specimens. The clamp inclu...