US Patent Issued to SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY, JINAN UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Optical-fiber-embedded and FRP-wrapped SMA composite bar with force sensing, stress driving and structural reinforcement integrated" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,422, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY (Guangdong, China) and JINAN UNIVERSITY (Guangdong, China).

"Optical-fiber-embedded and FRP-wrapped SMA composite bar with force sensing, stress driving and structural reinforcement integrated" was invented by Biao Hu (Shenzhen, China), Yingwu Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Zenghui Ye (Shenzhen, China), Feng Xing (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoxu Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhenyu Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an optical-fiber-embedded and FRP-wrapped SMA composite bar with force sensing, stress driving, and structural reinforcement i...