ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,673, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY (Zhengzhou City, China).
"Beam-column joint of prefabricated self-centering RC frame based on SMA material" was invented by Hui Qian (Zhengzhou City, China), Yifei Shi (Zhengzhou City, China), Zong'ao Li (Zhengzhou City, China), Xiangyu Wang (Zhengzhou City, China), Enfeng Deng (Zhengzhou City, China), Jundong GAo (Zhengzhou City, China), Xun Zhang (Zhengzhou City, China), Yingyang Liu (Zhengzhou City, China), Xiaoyan Yang (Zhengzhou City, China), Yuan Fang (Zhengzhou City, China), Dakuo Feng (Zhengzhou City, China), Qunshan Su (Zhengzhou City, China) and Zhongshan Zhang (Zhengzhou City, China).
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