ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,291, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hohai University (Nanjing, China), Jiangxi University of Science and Technology (Ganzhou, China) and JSTI GROUP (Nanjing, China).

"Damage identification method for cantilever beam based on multifractal spectrum of multi-scale reconstructed attractor" was invented by Maosen Cao (Nanjing, China), Dayang Li (Nanjing, China), Tongfa Deng (Ganzhou, China), Dragoslav Sumarac (Nanjing, China), Ganggang Sha (Nanjing, China), Yufeng Zhang (Nanjing, China), Emil Manoach (Nanjing, China) and Zeyu Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damage identification method for a cantilever beam based...