US Patent Issued to Shenzhen University on Dec. 9 for "Smart carbon fiber reinforced polymer-shape memory alloy bar reinforced concrete structure integrating cathodic protection, force sensing, and bearing capacity self-adjustment" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,480, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Shenzhen University (Shenzhen, China).

"Smart carbon fiber reinforced polymer-shape memory alloy bar reinforced concrete structure integrating cathodic protection, force sensing, and bearing capacity self-adjustment" was invented by Biao Hu (Shenzhen, China), Yingwu Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Zenghui Ye (Shenzhen, China), Feng Xing (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoxu Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP)-shape memory alloy (SMA) bar reinforced concrete structure integrating cathodic protection, force sensing, and bearing capacity self-adjustmen...