ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,277, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"High-rise modular steel structure building node in region of high seismic intensity and constructing method therefor" was invented by Junxian Zhao (Guangzhou, China), Zhiqiu He (Guangzhou, China), Qixiang Tian (Guangzhou, China) and Wei Han (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The building node includes an upper unit column, a lower unit column, an upper unit bottom beam, a lower unit ceiling beam, an upper connecting box, a lower connecting box, a connecting plate, an upper anchorage device, a lower anchorage device, an uppe...