ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,742, issued on July 7, was assigned to SUZHOU NUCLEAR POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China), CHINA GENERAL NUCLEAR POWER GROUP (Shenzhen, China) and CGN POWER Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Portable internal friction measuring instrument and internal friction measurement method" was invented by Xiangbing Liu (Suzhou, China), Yuanfei Li (Suzhou, China), Chaoliang Xu (Suzhou, China), Wenqing Jia (Suzhou, China), Jian Yin (Suzhou, China), Qiwei Quan (Suzhou, China) and Wangjie Qian (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable internal friction measuring instrument and internal friction measurement method, the portab...