US Patent Issued to Shenzhen University on Nov. 4 for "Steel fiber composite intelligent bar with sheathing optical cable embedded in inner core of rebar, and fabrication method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,326, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Shenzhen University (Guangdong, China).

"Steel fiber composite intelligent bar with sheathing optical cable embedded in inner core of rebar, and fabrication method thereof" was invented by Yingwu Zhou (Guangdong, China), Feng Xing (Guangdong, China), Zenghui Ye (Guangdong, China), Xiaoxu Huang (Guangdong, China), Zongjun Li (Guangdong, China), Zhongfeng Zhu (Guangdong, China) and Rui Hu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a steel fiber composite intelligent bar with a sheathing optical cable embedded in an inner core of a rebar, and a fabrication method thereof. The ste...