US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Devices and systems for displacement control in seismic braces and yielding links" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,810, issued on April 29.

"Devices and systems for displacement control in seismic braces and yielding links" was invented by Kimberley S. Robinson (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A yielding seismic element includes one or more displacement control elements connected to a yielding element. The yielding element is designed to deform under seismic forces. When the yielding element experiences an instance of local deformation, the displacement control elements interact with a displacement restraint fixed relative to the yielding element. The displacement restraint prevents further deformation at the instance of local deformati...