US Patent Issued to THE DOSHISHA, TOYO KENSETSU KOHKI on April 15 for "Method for predicting springback amount and method for bending deformed reinforcing bar" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,641, issued on April 15, was assigned to THE DOSHISHA (Kyoto, Japan) and TOYO KENSETSU KOHKI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for predicting springback amount and method for bending deformed reinforcing bar" was invented by Masahiro Sasada (Kyotanabe, Japan), Ikuho Matsukuma (Kyotanabe, Japan) and Satoshi Higaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a method for predicting a springback amount and a method for bending a deformed reinforcing bar including: supplying the deformed reinforcing bar bending the supplied deformed reinforcing bar, and subsequently measuring a first bending angle in a state of releasin...