ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,349, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CHINA RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION BRIDGE (Shenyang, China).

"Bridge sling based on electrochemical detection on steel wire corrosion and processing method therefor" was invented by Jian Zhao (Tianjin, China), Peng Liu (Panjin, China), Luming An (Hengshui, China), Hongping Lu (Zhucheng, China), Guannan Zhou (Tianjin, China), Yuanqing Wang (Beijing), Lilong Fan (Tianjin, China), Gang Chen (Luzhou, China), Meiyu Chen (Guangzhou, China), Yixuan Chen (Dezhou, China) and Xianyu Ji (Gaobeidian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of bridges, and specifi...