ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,562, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CCL STRESSING INTERNATIONAL LTD (Leeds, Great Britain).
"Concrete post-tensioning anchors" was invented by Carol Hayek (Jessup, Md.) and Richard Mouzannar (Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-tensioning anchor is configured to post-tension at least one tension steel element. The post-tensioning anchor includes a force transfer unit configured to transmit prestressing force into a surrounding concrete substrate and at least one steel member configured to resist an anchoring force by the at least one tension steel element on the force transfer unit. The force transfer unit ...