ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,804, issued on May 27, was assigned to Shandong University (Jinan, China) and Zhongke Zhiju (Jinan) New Materials Technology Co. Ltd. (Shandong, China).

"Method for preparing concrete-filled steel tubular edge-constrained laminated shear wall" was invented by Zhaojin Hou (Jinan, China), Yi Liu (Jinan, China), Hetao Hou (Jinan, China), Zilin Du (Jinan, China), Yinlin Mou (Jinan, China) and Zhenzhen Luo (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for preparing a concrete-filled steel tubular edge-constrained laminated shear wall, belonging to the field of prefabricated buildings. The method allows for integrated ...