US Patent Issued to Fuzhou University on July 28 for "Deformable anchor cable" (Chinese, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,791, issued on July 28, was assigned to Fuzhou University (Fuzhou, China).

"Deformable anchor cable" was invented by Xuezhen Wu (Fuzhou, China), Yujing Jiang (Nagasaki, Japan), Tao Deng (Fuzhou, China), Gang Wang (Qingdao, China), Zhenchang Guan (Fuzhou, China) and Qing Ye (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a deformable anchor cable. The anchor cable includes an outer sleeve, a shrinkage pipe, an inner sleeve, a steel strand, an anchor and a tray. When the anchor cable is in use, a hole is drilled first, then the anchor cable is mounted in the drilled hole, and finally a prestress is appli...