US Patent Issued to Buildz on Dec. 23 for "Connectors for assembling modular building units" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,847, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Buildz LLC (Forest City, N.C.).

"Connectors for assembling modular building units" was invented by Mark Joseph Bellissimo (Wellington, Fla.), Robert Francis Kelsch (Hendersonville, N.C.), Stanley Clark Beard Jr. (Hendersonville, N.C.) and Jason Daryl Hunsinger (Forest City, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector system for interconnecting vertically adjacent and/or laterally adjacent modular units of a building constructed from such modular units assembled rigidly together includes connectors that are rigidly attached to the modular units. These connectors are able to rigidly interlock...