US Patent Issued on Jan. 13 for "Building element, a method for the manufacture thereof, a profile and a combination of a profile and a panel" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,038, issued on Jan. 13.

"Building element, a method for the manufacture thereof, a profile and a combination of a profile and a panel" was invented by Foeke Jasper Schaap (Soest, Netherlands) and Jacobus Cornelis Buschgens (Soest, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building element, comprising a profile and a panel, characterized in that the profile and the panel are mutually coupled by means of a deformation of the panel inside the profile. The profile preferably comprises a housing with an inner wall and an internal space defined within the inner wall and at least one access opening in the inner wall providing access to t...