ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,473, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to RUENTEX ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Precast column and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Samuel Yin (Taipei, Taiwan), Jui-Chen Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jhih-Syuan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a precast column and a method for manufacturing the same, in which the precast column includes a base, a main structure, multiple main reinforcing bars and a concrete structure. The base includes multiple couplers disposed on a bottom mold and multiple stirrups surrounding the multiple couplers. One side of the...