US Patent Issued to NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF ECO-ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, CAS on Oct. 21 for "Anti-frost heave pile foundation support device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,751, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF ECO-ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, CAS (Lanzhou, China).

"Anti-frost heave pile foundation support device" was invented by Yapeng Cao (Lanzhou, China), Guoyu Li (Lanzhou, China), Yanhu Mu (Lanzhou, China), Yunhu Shang (Lanzhou, China), Dun Chen (Lanzhou, China) and Shunshun Qi (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a frost-heave-resistant pile foundation support device including a pile foundation cylinder, a pile foundation cylinder top seat, a pile foundation cylinder base, and a frost heave penetration mechanism, wherein...