ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,456, issued on April 22, was assigned to Wenhou University (Wenzhou, China).

"Method for foundation consolidation combining vacuum preloading and geomembrane bag assembly loading" was invented by Yuanqiang Cai (Wenzhou, China), Jun Wang (Wenzhou, China), Hongtao Fu (Wenzhou, China), Shihu Gao (Wenzhou, China), Bin Yang (Wenzhou, China), Xiaoxiao Zhu (Wenzhou, China), Rila Anda (Wenzhou, China) and Guohui Yuan (Wenzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for foundation consolidation combining vacuum preloading and geomembrane bag assembly loading, which comprises: digging a slurry pit, filling mud into the slurry pit and con...