ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,186, issued on July 15, was assigned to Southeast University (Nanjing, China).
"Integral reinforcement design method for external frame-brace based on random capability spectrum" was invented by De-Cheng Feng (Nanjing, China), Xu-Yang Cao (Nanjing, China) and Gang Wu (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integral reinforcement design method of an external frame-brace based on a random capability spectrum is provided, and the reinforcement design method includes: evaluating an original structure before reinforcement by using a random capability spectrum method; performing a reinforcement analysis on an external frame-brace...