US Patent Issued to SHANDONG JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY on July 8 for "Corrugated pipe connection device for continuous section at top of continuous T-shaped beam bridge pier and usage method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,997, issued on July 8, was assigned to SHANDONG JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Corrugated pipe connection device for continuous section at top of continuous T-shaped beam bridge pier and usage method" was invented by Jin Li (Jinan, China), Guangbo Liu (Jinan, China), Fengkun Cui (Jinan, China), Xu Dong (Jinan, China) and Xinzhuang Cui (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corrugated pipe connection device for a continuous section at the top of a continuous T-shaped beam bridge pier. The connection device includes a combined steel pipe telescopic device and a corrugated pipe connector, the interiors being hollow; the con...