ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,636, issued on May 27, was assigned to Northeastern University (Shenyang, China).
"Three-dimensional loading structure of ultra-large physical simulation facility for deep engineering disasters" was invented by Xiwei Zhang (Shenyang, China), Xiating Feng (Shenyang, China), Chunyuan Xue (Shenyang, China) and Lei Shi (Shenyang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a three-dimensional loading structure of an ultra-large physical simulation facility for deep engineering disasters. The three-dimensional loading structure comprises a horizontal ultra-large reaction frame, a vertical ultra-large reaction frame, ultra-long stroke...