US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION on April 14 for "Timber-concrete composite slab with notched plywood shear connector and manufacturing method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,175, issued on April 14, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Timber-concrete composite slab with notched plywood shear connector and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jung Kwon Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Sun Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Jun Pang (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Yong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timber-concrete composite slab with a notched plywood shear connector may include a plurality of shear connectors disposed with gaps in a width direction, and a plurality of tension members made of wood and each coupled to lower portions of ...