US Patent Issued to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY on Sept. 1 for "Socket assembled arch rib, manufacturing and construction method thereof, and arch bridge" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,358, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Socket assembled arch rib, manufacturing and construction method thereof, and arch bridge" was invented by Zeying Yang (Jinan, China), Li Tian (Jinan, China), Youzhi Wang (Jinan, China), Yinglin Sun (Jinan, China), Zhilin Qu (Jinan, China), Rongrong Duan (Jinan, China), Chenghe Wang (Jinan, China), Weisong Qu (Jinan, China), Qianyi Yang (Shandong, China), Jianbo Qu (Jinan, China), Zhengquan Cheng (Jinan, China), Chuanlong Bi (Jinan, China), Rui Sun (Jinan, China), Jie Liu (Jinan, China) and Guangtong Zhou (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A socket...