ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,034, issued on May 20, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).
"Dynamic identification method of bridge scour based on health monitoring data" was invented by Wen Xiong (Jiangsu, China) and Rongzhao Zhang (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a dynamic identification method of bridge scour based on health monitoring data, including: collecting an acceleration-time curve of a bridge foundation structure when vibrating: collecting the acceleration-time curve of each bridge foundation structure in a scour state by a health monitoring system when each bridge foundation structure vi...