ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,605, issued on May 27, was assigned to SICHUAN UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Single-pulse experimentation device based on hopkinson pressure bar and experimentation method" was invented by Nuwen Xu (Chengdu, China), Zhuang Li (Chengdu, China), Yong Xia (Chengdu, China), Biao Li (Chengdu, China), Peiwei Xiao (Chengdu, China), Haoyu Mao (Chengdu, China), Jun Liu (Chengdu, China), Feng Gao (Chengdu, China) and Yuepeng Sun (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-pulse experimentation device based on a Hopkinson pressure bar and an experimentation method include an experimentation assembly and a pulse controlling assembly,...