ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,957, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Nanjing, China).

"Extremely high-temperature in-situ fretting fatigue experimental device for the mortise- tenon joint" was invented by Qinan Han (Nanjing, China), Jianwen Fang (Nanjing, China), Haitao Cui (Nanjing, China), Yue Su (Nanjing, China), Hongjian Zhang (Nanjing, China) and Huiji Shi (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an extremely high-temperature in-situ fretting fatigue experimental device for a mortise-tenon joint. The device includes: a loading member configured to support a tenon spec...