ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,807, issued on June 2, was assigned to Northeastern University (Shenyang City, China).

"Dual-direction synchronous loading method for true-triaxial test apparatus" was invented by Benguo He (Shenyang City, China), Xiating Feng (Shenyang City, China), Jie Wang (Shenyang City, China), Rongli Zhen (Shenyang City, China), Hongpu Li (Shenyang City, China), Mian Tian (Shenyang City, China) and Zhibin Yao (Shenyang City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-direction synchronous loading method for a true-triaxial test apparatus includes the following steps: Step S1, loading a sample and adjusting the sample at a center of a sample box...