US Patent Issued to Advanced Fastener and Assembly Solutions on March 11 for "Purlin clip assembly and system" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,388, issued on March 11, was assigned to Advanced Fastener and Assembly Solutions LLC (Louisburg, N.C.).

"Purlin clip assembly and system" was invented by Alton Craig Hedgepeth (Louisburg, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weight-bearing system for hanging items from the roof structure of a metal building is disclosed. The system includes a purlin with at least one flange, a span aperture in the vertical span of the purlin, a clip that attaches to the purlin using the span aperture, and a fastener on the clip for transferring weight applied to the fastener to the clip and to the vertical span of said purlin."

The patent was fil...