US Patent Issued to HUNAN UNIVERSITY on June 23 for "Composite deck structure for bridge and bridge structure and construction method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,781, issued on June 23, was assigned to HUNAN UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"Composite deck structure for bridge and bridge structure and construction method thereof" was invented by Xudong Shao (Changsha, China), Xuan Sun (Changsha, China), Junhui Cao (Changsha, China), Deqiang Zou (Changsha, China) and Weidong Li (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite deck structure for a bridge, and a bridge structure and a construction method thereof. The composite deck structure includes a top plate (1), longitudinal ribs (2), and transverse ribs (3), the longitudinal ribs (2) are fixedly connected to the transverse ribs (3)...