ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,744, issued on March 3, was assigned to China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).

"Spatial multi-point synchronous closure construction method for a three-main-truss steel truss arch bridge" was invented by Jian Zhao (Tianjin, China), Guannan Zhou (Tianjin, China), Lilong Fan (Tianjin, China), Luming An (Tianjin, China), Yanlong Ren (Tianjin, China), Weidong Cai (Tianjin, China), Baoliang Wang (Tianjin, China) and Changhui Liu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial multi-point synchronous closure construction method for a three-main-truss steel truss arch bridge. The metho...