US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING on Oct. 6 for "Buckling-restrained brace and method for mounting buckling-restrained brace" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,622, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Buckling-restrained brace and method for mounting buckling-restrained brace" was invented by Toyoki Kuroiwa (Tokyo), Benjamin Jacob Sitler (Tokyo) and Masao Terashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buckling-restrained brace includes a core, a restrainer encasing the core from an outer side thereof, a stiffening member joined to the core in a state where a part of the stiffening member is disposed inside the restrainer, and a connector having a first end portion that is pin-joined to the structure and a second end portion that is joined to at le...