ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,457, issued on July 15, was assigned to Auckland UniServices Ltd. (Aucklund, New Zealand).
"Resilient slip friction joint" was invented by Pouyan Zarnani (Auckland, New Zealand) and Pierre Joseph Henri Quenneville (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slip connector to connect first and second members of a structure to allow relative but resisted movement, and to at least in part return any movement. In one embodiment, the connector includes a first and second components and a resilient fixing. The resilient fixing holds mutually slidable ramped surfaces of the first and second components contiguous so that the line...