US Patent Issued to Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences on July 22 for "Pile foundation bearing performance testing device and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,046, issued on July 22, was assigned to Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Gansu, China).

"Pile foundation bearing performance testing device and method" was invented by Zhi Wen (Gansu, China), Yasheng Li (Gansu, China), Fei Wang (Gansu, China) and Qiang Gao (Gansu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pile foundation bearing performance testing device and method are disclosed. The main body of the present invention is a pile body provided with a hydraulic jack at the bottom, and in the end-bearing friction pile test, the pile foundation service performance test can be conducted under...