US Patent Issued on Oct. 6 for "Multi-stage buckling-restrained brace device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,624, issued on Oct. 6.

"Multi-stage buckling-restrained brace device" was invented by Linlin Xie (Beijing), Qianxin Wen (Beijing), Cantian Yang (Beijing) and Aiqun Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-stage buckling-restrained brace device. The device comprises the parallel cores system, load-transfer system, and restrainer system. The parallel cores system consists of the energy dissipation component, placed between the two supporting plates. The load-transfer system consists of the first and second supporting plates, which are spaced along a specific direction. The restrainer system consists of the restraining componen...