ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,487, issued on April 1, was assigned to BAM NUTTALL Ltd. (Camberley, Great Britain).
"Modular structure for providing on-site protection" was invented by John Prothero (Camberley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a modular assembly, a site factory, for at least partially enclosing a site during construction of a structure. The modular assembly comprising: a plurality of portal frames, each portal frame comprising two columns and a roof beam, each column and roof beam comprising a plurality of pre-assembled units; a jack-up frame for each column; at least two first rails, each of the first ...