ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,040, issued on May 19, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Taipei City, Taiwan).
"Structural strengthening device" was invented by Chao-Hsun Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Ea-Shin Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Po-Cheng Lian (Hualien County, Taiwan) and Zhen-Jun Zheng (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural strengthening device to improve lateral strength of a building frame. The structural strengthening device comprising a structural member, connected to two beam-column connectors, comprising two jacketing pieces and two buffering material fillers. By connecting adjacent columns in the bui...