US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on May 13 for "Concrete product comprising an adaptive prestressing system, and method of locally prestressing a concrete product" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,644, issued on May 13, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Concrete product comprising an adaptive prestressing system, and method of locally prestressing a concrete product" was invented by Bassem Andrawes (Mahomet, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concrete product comprising an adaptive prestressing system includes a concrete body and a composite wire embedded within the concrete body at a predetermined location. The composite wire comprises anchored end portions, each of which comprises a bonded wire segment constrained within the concrete body to resist axial motion, and an ac...