US Patent Issued to Shenzhen University on Jan. 27 for "Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer active-passive-confined compression-cast reinforced concrete column incorporating cathodic protection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,811, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Shenzhen University (Shenzhen, China).

"Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer active-passive-confined compression-cast reinforced concrete column incorporating cathodic protection" was invented by Xiaoxu Huang (Shenzhen, China), Biao Hu (Shenzhen, China), Tao Du (Shenzhen, China), Yingwu Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Ruibo Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yufei Wu (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoqing Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Xianfeng Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Menghuan Guo (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a CFRP active-passive-confined compression-cast RC column incorporating cathodic protection, wh...