ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,741, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tianjin University (Tianjin, China).

"Feeding device for subway grille main reinforcement conveying" was invented by Lianyong Xu (Tianjin, China), Kangda Hao (Tianjin, China), Hao Wang (Tianjin, China), Yongdian Han (Tianjin, China), Lei Zhao (Tianjin, China), Wenjing Ren (Tianjin, China) and Tianzhu Wang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device for subway grille main reinforcement conveying includes two-layer chain plate conveyor arranged at an upper and a lower interval, and the chain plate conveyor is a climbing structure with one end high and one end low, two ends of t...