ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,903, issued on July 29, was assigned to Arconic Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).
"Curtain wall system accommodating wiring" was invented by Ion-Horatiu Barbulescu (Marietta, Ga.) and Gregory B. McKenna (Cumming, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a structural member providing front and back faces, and first and second webs extending between the front and back faces and laterally offset from each other to define a hollow space therebetween. A wire transfer channel is defined at an end of the first web adjacent the front face and extends into the hollow space. A shear block provides a base, a connector portion extending...